Home Street Home

During the spring and summer of 2020, with the funding of Kalevala Koru, we have built and established a training center for girls and young women. With the Kalevala Training Center, we can train vulnerable girls and young women. The center offers three different...

HSH Poultry Project is our henhouse project and a part of our larger vision of food safety. With volunteers, we have built a teaching henhouse to Makongeni, which has been used as an example and teaching facility. In addition, we have built henhouses for families in...

Especially during the rain season, a storm can take half of the house away, the roof can collapse, or the rain can take the walls with it. A whole family may have to live in a dangerous mud house, where the rain pours in. HSH Family House aims to renovate and build...

Over 80% of the diseases in developing countries are due to unclean water and lack of sanitation. Children are those who suffer most from the diseases caused by the lack of fresh water. One child every minute – so 1400 children each day – die due to the diseases...

In Makongeni, most people live below the poverty line, so for under a dollar a day. Due to poverty, the level of education is also very low. Many families can barely pay the school fees, but that alone does not enable the education of the child. Without books or...

Lack of toilets is a huge issue in Makongeni. Only approximately one in twenty families own some type of toilet in their home. In addition, the toilets that are available are often unhygienic and temporary. Most people cannot afford to build a toilet into their homes....

The aim of the project was to connect people in extreme circumstance. We visit the poorest areas in Kwale county and disperse mobile phones to entrepreneurs. A phone can change the everyday life of an entrepreneur and lift the living standard of the whole family. In...

Often the old school buildings in Kwale County are in bad shape. The walls are breaking, the blackboards are cracking, and the surroundings are untidy. We believe that a motivating surrounding, motivates not only the children at school, but also the parents to put...

HSH Trust is the trust program of Home Street Home. Through this program we search trustees for the children, who need support in their lives. Every child is aided in accordance to their personal needs. We meet the children and their families several times a year. In...

Permaculture means the construction of surrounding environment with appreciation towards the nature. Permaculture is a whole planning philosophy, which includes the garden, architecture, ecology and even financial management and community planning. In farming, the aim...

The aim of HSH Girls’ Class is to visit schools in rural regions and teach students about sexual health, menstruation, personal hygiene, puberty and the biology behind pregnancy. Depending on the region, topics regarding abuse and genital mutilation are also...

HSH This Girl Can has been created in the cooperation with Rajala Pro Shop. HSH believes that every girl can! Sometimes they just need a little bit of encouragement and acceptance. The aim of HSH This Girl Can was to activate girls through creativity and...

Home Street Home organizes the HSH Babyshower from time to time. The idea is to gather with expecting and new mothers, to cook together and provide the mothers with a baby kit. Our kits include children’s clothes, reusable diapers, nursing bottles, toys and other...

We work in cooperation with the Kwale county office of child affairs. One of the cooperative projects is HSH Haki Kit, which aims to support the rights of girls in cases of abuse and physical violence. The project offers a possibility for a P3-test and other support...

We work in cooperation with Kwale county office of child affairs. One of our cooperative projects is HSH Base Care. The office of child affairs receives hundreds of reports concerning child abuse and neglect each year within the Kwale county. In addition, there are...

The first official program, HSH Feeding program began running in January 2016. The project began as we were following the Pre-Primary program of Makongeni school. We heard complaints from the teacher that the children do not have the energy to focus during lessons and...

The main project of Home Street Home is to establish a rescue center to Kwale County. Home Street Home ry bought a plot in Makongeni village in December 2017. The construction of the rescue center was started with volunteers in January 2018. The construction work is...