 Children's Abilities, in their different talents, is a ground that attracts support from many other parties. Homo started by Bishop Tony Kamande, he's the founder. Initially, the churches and community came through in the initial stage. So when we started getting noticed, we have a lot of story, people are not aware of what the kids do. So that can I say PR helped us attract many people who come. So when they come, they say I need a boy ex, my responsibility will be to take care of his school fees and his everything until he finish. That's how we finance. And then we have corporates who have come through. Not only do they rely on their supporters, but have also other sustainable measures for running the home. Number one, sustaining project is fun. What I didn't mention, we also have a greenhouse. So we realized one thing, that if you entitle a child with everything, they get dependent on you. What if they can produce it for themselves? So our farm is divided into sections that every child participate in making sure every produce in that farm is by them. I usually tell them young life is for you, let everything be by you. So like our greenhouse, initially we were planting the normal kote cultural, danillas and everything, but we changed into trees. It's being managed by a 7 years old boy and a 12 years old boy. Currently in that greenhouse we have put trees. Our guiding principle in that greenhouse project is we need an environment that doesn't need protection. So one train the kids about the environment too, let them practically do the planting of the trees in the nursery. And that tree is not just there for photohoop, we sell them to the community and people come and buy that we get money. At the same time the child is 7 years old, but the time is 20, that's a good farmer. So the 7 years old and the 12 years old are the ones taking care of our greenhouse. On the farm as a state we have the turkey and all those animals, each animal has a boy who takes care of it. Now there's that part of a child being a child, if you don't motivate them they'll just mess up. So those who are dealing with the turkey and those who are dealing with the chicken, every week they have to eat 3 eggs. That is you don't even ask, just take and eat. Trust me we eat every Friday 2 crate of eggs from our own farm. So turkey, duck and chicken, each of them turkey has a boy, chicken has a different boy and ducks have a different boy. When it comes to dairy goat we want to do also the cow, but we are in rural and getting food, it's more like a semi-arid partly. So it requires a lot of investment, for us we went to what we can manage, that's the dairy goat. There are 2 boys who make sure they are well fed in the morning, they milk them and we drink our own milk. My joy is in the children's success, says Fred. I can name an individual boy, let me mention his name is Isa Kuidaka, he's a musician on YouTube, his name is Aisy Young. He started singing when he was around 6 years and in school he was also good. So what impressed me was his discipline and his commitment to just hold on to what he believes in. He finished high school and went to college, he did music production and he continued doing his music career. And what Isaac did after college, he's the one who came and set up the studio at the home. Apart from that, he went and set up his own studio called Wigu Production. And some of our boys are partly produced in the Wigu Production as he trained them to also be producers at our own simple studio. And right now he's not doing very bad, his pitch is bright. We have a boy, his name is Jackson Morege. He was good in academic, he went to Jayquat, did BBIT. Right now he own a business in Ruiru and he's doing very well. And then we have others who have set up their businesses. Most of them, if I may go back, what we are teaching them is to be employers rather than be employee. I want them to set up their, I usually tell them, I want to see you guys writing checks, paying people. So those who finished like 10 years ago, majority of them have set up their businesses and is doing very well. They are going by our motto, be employers. When I see a child just believing in what he believes in, determined to achieve. And then one day you see him solving problem using his own, not using his own academic papers but using his skills and practical skills to solve problem. When I see a child who sees life beyond basic needs, he sees I'm a man, I'm a girl and I'm a solution to this problem as he's facing Kenya. What makes me happy is when I sit with them and then they are giving you ideas and they are like, why are we not doing this in Kenya? Why are we still sorry to say politics? I was in staff and doing that. Yet this kid in class 5 is already found a solution to bring water in slums. This kid was already find a way to make sure every home is connected to an internet. It gives me joy. It gives me joy to see that the Kenya and live behind their people who are going to take that responsibility and do it even better. We do not believe in corporal punishment. We therefore punish our children differently. Some people believe that corporate punishment works at some point but for us we realize something. Most of these kids come from very difficult background. The moment you get physical with them, they react badly. Second, some of them, those who have been in the street, they have been came by the kanjo, they have been came by the police. So if you use your own cane, it's like the minimum of everything. So what we realize, they fear two things, especially boy child. They fear to wash utensils and they fear to farm. So that is our two punishment area. For example, when I go to the dormitory and I find your bed is not made. If I tell them nil, to them it's the easiest. But the moment I mention wash utensils, they start begging. So we realize, why don't I use, you see, they wash utensils, that duty is done and he has learned his lesson. Or maybe for example, they sometime get into physical fight. They are kids, kids will always be kids. So when I find you fighting, I tell you, please take a jembe and a shovel, meet me at the farm. Let's quantify your punishment. It can be two step by three step. I give you two hours. And then the following week they will plan that farm, that is the punishment. Two things has happened. They have learned the lesson and they have left vegetable for us to eat in the next two years. So that's how we deal with them. When you come to a farm, it's green. You might think we have like four or five workers that deal with that farm. No, that's how we do it. We have a lot of bananas. Each hall represent and in this main case, you go and I give you a duty to clean that place and you do it. What makes me happy, they are very disciplined, they listen. But what we are looking right now is quality. I give you to clean somewhere and you are doing it by 70% that is not accepted in young life farm. I'm trying to give them that idea of quality, quality. You'll go to a farm, you'll be employed by who, they look for quality. So you do 70% to us is not passed mark to the field. And that way, less on both land farming. By empowering the boy child, Fred also gave room for the girl child to benefit from this program. When he started, it was all about the boy child. But then we realized in our community, there are also girls who need help. But we've made our facility in such a way they don't meet us only for the boy child. So how do we bring the girl child in our program? So what we did is we went to the community, identified those families that are needy. But in that family we only take the girl child. Currently we have 15 of them. What they do they come in the morning, especially this corona period, they come in the morning and they'll go back to their home at around 4 o'clock. Between 8 o'clock and 4 o'clock they do all the empowerment program. We have girls who can do engineering, won't even believe. There are girls who, there's one whose name is Masi Kamau. He's a very good journalist, he can shoot video, edit and do all the stuff. We have girls who they do farming, no discrimination. As long as you are a human being, that's what matters. I don't look at the gender, you are a human being. That means you have the ability. So like Masi he has a very big firm, he has planted his vegetable. I don't treat them differently. I see human, not a girl, not a boy. I'm Masi, I remember Kamau. I remember in my young life, children's home. It is mainly known being a boy child institution. But over the years they introduced the girl child program. We have 15 girls. I myself, I'm very challenged by the boys. Especially Stephen, who is an artist, who is a producer, who does music. He just challenge me. And from the challenge I say Fred introduced me to photography. I do photography myself. I also do farming apart from photography. My farm is in young life. It's a Kels farm. I also do editing. And I also do videography. I also upload or deploy videos on social media. Being that most initiatives are met with challenges, this hasn't been an exception. Some of the challenges we get, one of them falls under the basic needs. We need continuous supply of the basic needs. That is the food, clothing, beddings, because they are still coming and they are still being used. So getting, especially in this COVID-19 era, most of those visitors find economical downturn. So they have been also affected. So we've seen the reduction of donation in the home in terms of those food. Second is understanding our program. It's very difficult to explain to a visitor who is used to a chidun sum that ask only for basic needs that I need the empowerment tools. Some of them they get their own ideas in their mind. Why are you asking me for a school driver? Why are you asking me for, you see? So there's that understanding of a child in a chidun sum is not just there to eat and sleep. He needs also to be empowered. So some of them it takes long, long so that they can get that even a 7 years old boy can dismantle a computer and can do the amazing things that they are showing. And then you convince them to give you the tools and the server that is needed. That's where the challenge is. And lastly, sometime we have all these issues. We have an HIV program and we also have what we call them the vulnerable kids. Sometime we get stuck with the issue of the health in Kenya. So getting them to the right medication rate. That's where the challenge is main for us. More and more empowerment, as Fred says, is part of their future plans. For young life to be, it's not a one man show. There is always the team and the supporter. Personally I want to thank our founder, his name is Tony Kamande Kamau. He's been a great help to make sure us, our staff, do what we can. Secondly, I want to thank every staff in Nyanguev. Genemaia Mwangi and Bonfies Kaseiki. They have been very instrumental to make sure that this program is very important. And I want to thank the, we come in an area called Domaria. I want to thank the community from the government chief. The government administration, they have been very supportive. And even the neighborhood. I want to thank the corporates like Safari Com, CDAC and those APHUARans for coming big time. To make sure that things that exist, they came to be. And I want to thank finally the kids. It's not easy for them to just do what they do. It requires discipline and commitment. Each one of them, they are my heroes. They deserve every machuja and every hero model. They are the best in the world and they are my world. The children say they are very grateful for the opportunities given by the home. To young life, that is young life, I thank it because it has done so much to me. Being this young, it's abnormal that you find a girl who is a photographer, a farmer, but it has done me to be that so I thank the organization. I thank young life. And I want to thank them. In Kenya we have about 18 million children. If all of them are given practical chance to explore their inner, rather than putting them in this academic box that you have to get an A to be intelligent. No, if we can let them explore their inner self. Imagine 18 kids in 2020, five years from now, if they are given the same chance of giving these boys. I am looking at, in the next 20 years, made in Kenya will be close to made in USA. Someone in China will be asking a shopkeeper in China, I need that telephone made in Kenya. But right now, made in Kenya is nowhere. And that's what we are doing in Yangwef, training them practically, rather than guys with degrees and a lot of theories and they are not solving any problem.