Openhand Children's Home

The children’s home Openhand was situated in a slum in Nairobi. It was built by the Kenyan women named Alice Wanjiru Mukui and Jassie Njoki Gichuki from their own funds and opened on 21^st of May 2003. The home is a privately run, so it has to rely on donations.

Now 26 children, whether they be babies or teenagers, have a new home.
Some children came to the home as new born babies found abandoned, others were left at their home by their parents. A few of them only know, where they were discovered, others only have a vague memory of their families – they all shares disappointment and sorrow about their fate.

Openhand Children’s home offers these children a caring, safe and reliable home, which provides them with food, cares about their health, strengthens their self-confidence and gives them a chance for better education. To summarize it gives the children a new life perspective.

However, the home was crowded and the children were confronted with the misery of the slum. A dream came true, when the financial resources were given to buy a piece of land and rebuild the hostel outside of Nairobi.

A new home for the orphans was built in 2012.