ORGANIZATION
HOME STREET HOME
Home Street Home is a non-profit organization registered in Finland (2014), Kenya (2015) and Switzerland (2020). Home Street Home runs project activities in the fields of education, welfare and health for children and young people in Kenya, Kwale County. Home Street Home’s operations center is located in the small village of Makongeni, on the coast of Kenya.
OUR VALUES
CARING
RESPECT
HONESTY
DIVERSITY
LOCALLY ORIENTED
Through our activities, we aim to support community development, eliminate poverty and hunger, develop education and health services, and promote the improvement of the status of girls and women. Read more about the most central sustainable development goals for our operations at the link below.
WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
28 339
THIS MANY HAVE GOTTEN HELP THROUH US
311 200
CUPS OF PORRIDGE SERVED
538
SPONSORED SCHOOL YEARS
398
GRADUATED FROM KALEVALA TRAINING CENTER
530
SHARED MATERNITY PACKAGES
10 532
TREATED PATIENTS 2021-2023
OUR ACTIVITIES IN FINLAND
Our voluntary activities in Finland focus on information sharing and fundraising in the various events. Our volunteers in Finland assist us in various events. They sell handicrafts, made at our training center in Kenya, share information about our activities and perform various remote tasks, such as preparing reports and translations.
Do you have time or skills to share? There is no need for previous experience, your motivation matters most!
Contact us and we will tell you more about our voluntary activities in Finland:
internationals@homestreethome.fi
HOME STREET HOME SWITZERLAND
“Our connection with Kenya began in 2013, when Sandro Specker met Salim Mwarima while volunteering in Makongeni. When Sandro visited his long-time friend Salim again in early 2020, he was impressed by HSH, which had since been established.”
Sandro and his wife Sarah decided to support HSH and founded HomeStreetHome – Switzerland in March 2020. Since then, the association has been looking for sponsors and volunteers in Switzerland. Besides supporting at the monthly HSH board meetings, Sandro & Sarah try to help in Makongeni as often as possible.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH CO-CREATION
One of our main strengths is that we are locally based and part of the community. All decisions about our organisation’s activities are made in consultation with and respect for the community, through our HSH Committee. Our committee acts as a link, making sure that our activities meet the expectations of the community.
For larger and more significant decisions, we use co-creation working methods and invite not only team members but also professionals from different sectors, community members, and activists from the region to discuss and reflect on challenges and opportunities together.
A CHANGING WORLD
The world has made it clear that we live in a world of constant change. The climate crisis, the pandemic years, war of Ukraine and climate refugees have shown that we must be constantly prepared to adapt to a changing world.
We are striving to develop our own activities so that we are not only resilient to the waves of a changing world, but also ready to act in the face of the new. Whether it is a global pandemic or a food shortage, we will strive to stand firmly on the side of the the most vulnerable.
We also strive to evolve our own operations so that we grow into a more modern organisation. Ethical issues are constantly on our minds, and we strive to find better ways of working. When vulnerable families, as well as children, are in need of help, discretion is important. In addition, when working in a village community, we have to take into account post-colonial power structures and the white saviour setting.
It is not always easy or simple to determine the right way to act, but we try our best to do better every day than we did yesterday.
KNOWLEDGE
The world is more informed than ever before, and new research knowledge is constantly being generated. At Home Street Home, we want to help the community get access to reliable information. We want to raise community awareness of, for example, health promotion and the importance and opportunities of sustainable development.
In all our activities, we collect data and evaluate the effectiveness of our projects. We seek to identify and create metrics to measure successes, challenges and impact. We work with local authorities and share our knowledge, findings and observations.
READ MORE ABOUT OUR WORK
You can read more about our activities by clicking on the annual reports below.
HOME STREET HOME RY
Kenya
Finland
Home Street Home ry
Koivutie 18
42300 Jämsänkoski
info@homestreethome.fi
Viola Wallenius +358 400 857 305
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