Hope For Orphans Rescue Centre

Hope for Orphans Rescue Centre (HOREC) is home to 35 children who are either living or orphaned with HIV and AIDS. The home was established by Christine Wambui in 2005 after volunteering in various slums looking after people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA).  In the process of administering ARVs and giving food aid to PLWHA, she experienced first-hand the neglect and abuse the children of the PLWHA underwent. She started taking the children whose parents had dead or their guardians abused them into her own home.

With the number of children swelling, Christine Wambui moved them to a rental house in Ruai. Good tidings came in 2007 when a volunteer from America purchased land where the children presently reside.

The home has undergone rapid metamorphosis from its humble beginning in Ruai thanks to Barclays Bank who constructed a girl’s dormitory, Safaricom Foundation who provided funds for the construction of a chicken coop to provide the children with eggs while the surplus is sold to the community and the monthly financial support from Global Hope, Bright Point For Children. The First United Methodist Church of Durango sank a borehole that provides clean drinking water for our children as well as the community. Davis and Shirtlif generously donated a pump and a purification system to ensure the water is safe for the children under HOREC care.

Many individuals in the community identify themselves with HOREC and make regular visits to be with the children.

HOREC has realized the importance of having sustainable projects that will impact the children in HOREC and the community at large.