Anita's Home

Anita’s Home is a rare project for two reasons:
the first reason because it is run by women;
the second because three Kenian families decided to welcome under their roof, together with their sons and daughters, street girls from the poor areas of Nairobi.

Most of them are orphans, victims of sexual tourism.
Some of them are literally born on the sidewalks, while other at the tender age of 12, are already mother.The age of the girls welcomed into the house ranges from 4 to 13 years.

Three Nuba children, escaped from the war in the Nuba Mountains, whose age ranges from 6 to 15 years, have also been sheltered in the Anita’s Home. Two of them lived the terrific experience of slavery.

Anita’s Home is situated in the green hills of N’Gong. This place was chosen to remove the girls as much as possible from the debasement of the poor areas of Nairobi.
All the girls attend the nearby primary school, collaborate to the routine housework and take part with the elder young, in different activities such as handicrafts, theatre and all work concerned with the domestic economy.

A hen house with good layer hens is active; some beehives produce very good honey and a kitchen garden is grown by the families with the help of the girls: the products of these activities, besides helping the small guests’ sustenance, are sold at the local market to contribute to the house budget.

ANITA’S HOME was set up in memory of Anita Pavesi, an honorary judge of the Juvenile Court in Milan who died in 1998 after over twenty years of extraordinary and extremely humane committment towards people and families in dire need.