It is difficult to calculate the exact number of children living in the streets of Kenya.

Thousands are however those who populate the slums of Nairobi, slums that have arisen over the years around the city's large landfills. They are orphans, more often abandoned by their parents or fleeing the extreme poverty of their families of origin. In the street they initially look for a refuge, and they stay together with other children like them. Hopes for a better life, however, are broken in a short time to make way for an existence made up of expedients - not always legal - to survive, alcohol, glue and drugs.

Currently the Rainbow Project supports about twenty young people removed from the street by welcoming them at the G9 Residential Centre, which is the house number of an old structure where in the past street children were knocking for a meal.

Here they lead a normal life: they eat and wash regularly, go to school, play like all their peers and are treated when sick. Followed by the operators, they rediscover the value of life and look to the future with confidence. When possible they are progressively reintegrated in their respective families.

In the afternoon, the G9 Centre opens its doors to the children of the neighborhood, becoming a kind of oratory where they can come to play, be together, listen to music, play football or basketball, using the premises of the centre.

The Project also supports about fifteen children enrolled in secondary schools, universities and technical courses, guaranteeing them the payment of school fees, learning materials and transport to and from school.

Finally, twice a week the Project organizes street outreach to meet about eighty children and young people who live in the street, involving them in recreational activities and offering them lunch. Since the Covid emergency in Kenya began (end of March 2020), street children can no longer sleep outside, due to curfew, so the Project has rented 5 rooms in Githurai 45 neighborhood, so that they have a place where to sleep.