ANPPCAN sets Desk at Jamhuri IDP Camp

ANPPCAN Regional established an office at the Jamhuri Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) Camp to respond to the needs of children displaced from Kibera informal settlement and adjacent areas owing to the December 2008 post-election violence in Kenya.

Many other child rights organisations joined ANPPCAN and continue to assist children in many ways including offering education, counselling, play theraphy and referral services.

The office also co-ordinates issues related to reporting and tracing of lost children, identification of the specific needs of children and establishing mechanisms of addressing the needs.

So far 55 unaccompanied children have been screened and relocated to SOS Village in Buru Buru in Nairobi.

The office has also been following leads to the effect that unscruplous individuals are out to traffic children in the guise of taking them out of the camp to enrol them in schools.

Only last week, World Vision set up the Child Friendly Spaces near the Children Centre.

ANPPCAN will continue to offer assistance to children at the Camp till the last child leaves and/orand is re-united back with the parents.