Once again this year De Padova confirms its commitment to social responsibility: 2010 will be devoted to support of the program CHILDREN IN NEED of AMREF - the African Medical and Research Foundation. The company’s support of this non-profit organization began in 2009 with the construction of a well in Kenya, and continues today with a project of great importance for the rehabilitation of street kids in the district of Dagoretti, on the outskirts of Nairobi.

CHILDREN IN NEED is a community rehab project developed in collaboration with the Government of Kenya and the local beneficiary communities. AMREF promotes and develops a sustainable community model that ensures shelter, psycho-physical rehabilitation and reinsertion of children and adolescents at risk.
The project achieves these objectives in a gradual way, through the following activities

community mobilization: street work; therapeutic camps and sporting activities
rehabilitation: health care and psycho-social assistance; nutritional support; scholastic recovery; courses in art, drawing, cooking and gardening; courses in video, photography and animation; theater and music.
reintegration: return to the family; home visits; advisory consulting; meetings with parents and relatives; development of family skills.
resocialization: formal education; vocational training; activities to ensure the health and psycho-physical wellbeing of young people.

AMREF has become, during 50 years of activity, the main private, non-profit health care organization in Eastern Africa. Its mission is to contribute to improvement of health in Africa through active involvement and reinforcement of communities, local personnel and health care systems.
To do this AMREF employs over 800 persons, 97% African, and implements over 140 projects of health care development in 6 countries. Since 2000 it has operated in the Dagoretti district: a vast area of 38.7 km2 on the outskirts of Nairobi, in Kenya. This area is populated by about one million persons living in disastrous socio-economic conditions and exposed to contagious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, cholera, measles and tuberculosis. About 33.6% of the population is composed of young people and very young children, the so-called “street children”.
AMREF, based on its many years of experience in the field, makes its expertise available to help these children change their lives and be reinserted in the society.