Seedsowing Network

If you are a child growing up in Dagoretti you are probably there because your family is connected in some way with the meat trade and its operations centered on the abattoir in the village or maybe your parents are working locally or in Nairobi.

You might have one parent or be living with a grandparent and your role in life would be to help, by collecting firewood and water. You don’t have many possessions,a few clothes and you probably live in a one roomed corrugated iron hut like the one to the right, with a curtain that divides the bed from the rest of the house. You share the floor as a bed with your brothers and sisters.

Food is very expensive and consists mainly of maize flour porridge with occasional vegetables and gravy to add flavour.

The seedsowing school on the outskirts of the village is an oasis of care. In a few short years the school teaches basics like reading writing and arithmetic and provides clothing, food, discipline and the social skills needed to enter the state system. This is an escape route for these children.