| About Tumaini Kwa Watoto |
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They met in Deliverance Church in the mid eighties and were married there by Bishop William Tuimising in November 1986. Their calling is to a family based outreach program to children on the streets of Nairobi.
CHILDREN OF HOPE TEAM (View complete profiles) They (The Williams), together with the able team, seek to rescue children from the street, reunite and reconcile them with their families or to place them in a foster family and to be involved in the process of restoring the child and his/her family to their potential. There, they believe, is a feasible solution for the problem of homeless and orphaned children. It may be the only feasible solution since the problem of homeless and orphaned children is so great that the building of Children’s homes would not be feasible. Neither does it give children the parental love and care which they were created for nor the parental model that they need for when they become parents themselves. Psalm 68:6a says, ‘God sets the lonely in families.’ They regularly have children from the streets as part of their family. The objective is to give them a taste of a functional family until they are ready to take that love back home to their own family or to place them in a foster family. They currently have a team of ten (10) including themselves. The team carries out street work four times a week, which includes two days of informal school in a City Council Rehab Center, take children home (when they are ready) to various parts of Kenya and follow up each child every three months. Prayer is foundational to this work and we meet daily for prayer and spend the whole of Wednesday morning in prayer together. We believe that teaching and training is also a vital part of this work. We like this definition of success: Success is…
In order to be able to set children on the success journey, we recognize that we ourselves need to be on the same journey. To grow the work we need to grow our team and to grow our team, we need to grow ourselves. Therefore we invest much time in personal growth and invest in relevant books, tapes and videos for our team and ourselves. We are currently relating to more than 300 children and more than 170 families in many parts of Kenya. Team members often undertake overnight journeys and long walks in order to reunite children with their families and to follow them up. BACK
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Having worked with the children on the streets for over six years, as a team they have found that the major problem is the lack of effective parenting, especially by fathers. They have also come to understand that the place of every child is in a family. 
