Amini Home: a project to support women victims of prostitution
The "Amini Home" project was established in March 2023 in the Nairobi district of Kenya, where hundreds of women every day prostitute themselves on the streets or in clubs in order to survive and provide necessities for their children. In order to rescue them and enhance the services offered, €20,000 is needed. Your help is essential to achieve this important goal. Thank you!
The "Amini home" project was born in March 2023, in the Nairobi district of Kenya, where hundreds of women, ages 17 to 60, prostitute themselves every day in order to survive and provide necessities for their children. These are women who sell their bodies for little more than a euro, out of hunger, for rent or for their children's schooling. They are victims of poverty.
Sharon is one of them, we met her in a club where she was prostituting herself, there she even slept at night, on tables, together with her child, because she had nowhere to go.
Here in Nairobi, desperation, lack of job opportunities, and the unfavorable socioeconomic environment drive many women to take this path: as Don Oreste Benzi used to say "No woman is born a prostitute, there is always someone or something that makes her become one".
Thus was born "Amini Home," a welcoming place where operators invite women, encountered in places of prostitution, to get to know each other and to propose alternative paths of dignity.
The project offers health and psychological care services (many women have serious health problems), training courses, support for schooling, interviews with qualified operators and direct interventions on the territory through a street unit and a shelter.
Through dialogue and active listening, the operators try to get to know them and make themselves known in order to understand their dreams and aspirations, so that together they can build a path of rebirth suitable for them.
To this end, courses in catering, pastry making, tailoring and aesthetics are organized. The girls have a great desire for redemption, just like Veronica, a single mother, who as soon as she started the pastry course, left the streets and is now employed in a hotel near Nairobi.
More and more women are approaching the project for help, but in order to be able to help them all and reach more and more street girls, it is necessary to strengthen the services offered, for which the need is 20,000€. With your support, we can help them in this important goal and offer the rescued women all the tools they need to build a dignified and independent life for themselves.
- Donate to an already active personal fundraiser: any contribution, even the smallest, will make a difference.
- If, on the other hand, you want to do something even bigger, activate a personal fundraiser and help us engage many new people we otherwise could not reach by asking your friends, family and colleagues to support you with a donation.
You can also donate by bank transfer or postal bulletin.
IBAN: IT04 X030 6909 6061 0000 0008 036
POSTAL ACCOUNT: 12148417
Both payable to: Pope John XXIII Community Association
Reason to specify: 24R014 support Amini Home Kenya
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create your own fundraiser or donate for an already active one
SUPPORT THE PROJECT:
create your own fundraiser
or donate for an already active one
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The "Amini home" project was born in March 2023, in the Nairobi district of Kenya, where hundreds of women, ages 17 to 60, prostitute themselves every day in order to survive and provide necessities for their children. These are women who sell their bodies for little more than a euro, out of hunger, for rent or for their children's schooling. They are victims of poverty.
Sharon is one of them, we met her in a club where she was prostituting herself, there she even slept at night, on tables, together with her child, because she had nowhere to go.
Here in Nairobi, desperation, lack of job opportunities, and the unfavorable socioeconomic environment drive many women to take this path: as Don Oreste Benzi used to say "No woman is born a prostitute, there is always someone or something that makes her become one".
Thus was born "Amini Home," a welcoming place where operators invite women, encountered in places of prostitution, to get to know each other and to propose alternative paths of dignity.
The project offers health and psychological care services (many women have serious health problems), training courses, support for schooling, interviews with qualified operators and direct interventions on the territory through a street unit and a shelter.
Through dialogue and active listening, the operators try to get to know them and make themselves known in order to understand their dreams and aspirations, so that together they can build a path of rebirth suitable for them.
To this end, courses in catering, pastry making, tailoring and aesthetics are organized. The girls have a great desire for redemption, just like Veronica, a single mother, who as soon as she started the pastry course, left the streets and is now employed in a hotel near Nairobi.
More and more women are approaching the project for help, but in order to be able to help them all and reach more and more street girls, it is necessary to strengthen the services offered, for which the need is 20,000€. With your support, we can help them in this important goal and offer the rescued women all the tools they need to build a dignified and independent life for themselves.
- Donate to an already active personal fundraiser: any contribution, even the smallest, will make a difference.
- If, on the other hand, you want to do something even bigger, activate a personal fundraiser and help us engage many new people we otherwise could not reach by asking your friends, family and colleagues to support you with a donation.
You can also donate by bank transfer or postal bulletin.
IBAN: IT04 X030 6909 6061 0000 0008 036
POSTAL ACCOUNT: 12148417
Both payable to: Pope John XXIII Community Association
Reason to specify: 24R014 support Amini Home Kenya
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Fundraisers supporting the project
Freeing mothers from prostitution: a battle against poverty and despair
Fundraising by Sara Esposito
380 €
-85 Days
6%
6,000 €
4 Donations
Close to women and children to make a family together toward a better life
Fundraising by Elisa Lupi
160 €
-75 Days
4%
4,000 €
3 Donations
