St Monica Children's Home

ST. MONICA CHILDREN’S HOME is a home for the ORPHANED – GIRL CHILD regardless of their creed or race. It is a home, started by Rev. Fr. Augustine Kariuki, in 2003 as a Godsend, mainly for girls who are mostly vulnerable and living in poverty from the age of 5 yrs to 17 yrs. The girls admitted in the Home are without parents or guardians, dehumanised, humiliated, oppressed, marginalized powerless and defiled. They have been deprived of minimum food, education, love and shelter necessary to maintain life by the extended family or they are very poor to support them. Those are the girls we call orphans of orphans and poor of the poorest. “Girls are vulnerable to more problems after their parents have departed than the boys”. At the moment we have 35 (Thirty Five) orphans girl-child in the Home, but the number could rise to 80 or more if facilities were available.

When I started St Monica Children’s Home, there were so many problems blocking my effort to commence the home especially from my family members. My family wanted me to give them the home to do their business and to own the property. I am very glad because today they have accepted the idea of helping the orphan – girl child. I started this noble idea of looking after the orphans when I was ten years old. The implementation and the dream has come to be true when I am fifty-seven years of age.

I take this opportunity to thank the committee and friends of St Monica who have helped St Monica Children’s Home to be what we are today. I am also appealing for more people of goodwill to give a hand and support St Monica Children’s Home. May God bless you abundantly.

Rev. Fr Augustine Kariuki
Director/Founder of St Monica Children’s Home