Beneficiaries of children's home who succeed in life after living the homes have been encouraged to be going back to help and mentor the children they leave back.
John Karenge, who is the Children's Welfare Director at Action For Children in Conflict, Thika is the one who made this call on Thursday saying that very few of children's home beneficiaries go back to those institutions to help those that they leave back.
"Though we do not help these kids expecting anything from them, it is always good to be like the one leper who went back to thank Jesus after he was healed from his leprosy," said Karenge in his office.
He added: "Many of our beneficiaries get sponsorships, get to good schools and later become successful in life. That is our ultimate goal. However, most of these beneficiaries tend to forget where they came from and that in those homes they left there are kids whom they were like them at one time and would need similar help or even mentorship."
He said that many children's homes are faced with various challenges ranging from overcrowding, lack of sponsorships to cater for all the kids' education to inadequate food and beddings which he said needed the hands of well-wishers and the society as whole to resolve.