Consolata Youth Rehabilitation Programme (COYREP) isa Iegally recognised NGO registered in August 2001 by the Kenya Government. The Organization is operating at Consolata Shnne Pansh offices in Westlands, Nairobi.
COYREP is headed by a Board Iinked to the Parish Council, which includes professional volunteers. It focuses its effort on offering hope and a future to the Youth of Westlands slums and street Youth through Promotion of Education, Health, Empowerment and Development.
Every year, its services are benefìting an average of 100 street youth, 70 nursery children, 30 slum youth and 30 young poor single mothers, all of whom are identified with Westlands vicinity. COYREP services reach out to slums Iocally named "Maasai", "Suswa" and "Deep Sea", and other poor settlements of the area whose living situation Is dramatic.
The programme gets~ts resources from well-wishers in and outside Kenya notably local parishioners and volunteers from abroad.

COYREP has initiated education projects to benefit the poor in the Westlands area. The aim is to provide basic education for children and to enable others continue their education in primary and secondary schools.
The following are the specific activities:


-COYREP runs a Nursery School at the Deep Sea
slum and it already caters for over 70 children every year
-Sponsorship for slum children to primary schools.               -Sponsorship of slums youth and street children to colleges for commercial and vocational courses.
-Organizing workshops and seminars on life
challenging topics for the youth of the slums and the street (e.g. HIV/AIDS, Moral and Behavioural changes, etc).

COYREP has organized a team of medical professional volunteers (Doctors and Nurses) to facilitate delivery of health and medical services to the poor of the area. The team is collaboratin g with the Nairobi City Council and professiona I weIl-wishers. The following are the services provided:

-Delivery of primary health care services at
Westlands Health Centre.
-Through Medical professionals, referrals are made to established hospitals for the more serious medical cases.
-Offer information on topical health issues effecting the community, putting emphasis on responsible and moral values.
-Provide a spectrum of basic curative, preventive and promotive health care services (maternity, AIDS awareness, Laboratory etc).

 

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