Second Chances walks alongside young people who are leaving, or have already left, institutional care across Kenya. Whatever brought you here: you are not too late, you are not too far gone, and you are not too much.
This site is private. You can leave quickly at any time.
We walk alongside two groups of young people, wherever you are on the journey, there is a way in.
Right now at the gate: ageing out, discontinued from sponsorship, or leaving a children's home for any reason. This is the most vulnerable moment, with everything uncertain and no one waiting. We step into that gap immediately: stabilisation, counselling, safe referrals, and a community that will not disappear.
Start here →You transitioned some time ago, but the support ran out, and you have been carrying an adult world on shoulders that were never prepared to hold it. It is never too late. Second Chances is here for you too.
Reach out →It wasn't built by people looking in. After the loss of his parents, Peter and his five siblings were separated and placed in an orphanage in Nairobi. He remained in a children's home until he was twenty: one of thirty children under two house mothers, waiting, like so many do, for someone to come.
No one came.
Years later he returned to that same home, first as a social worker, then as a social programmes manager, spending a decade working from inside the system he had survived. Second Chances is what he once needed himself.
Read Peter's story →It requires someone looking a young person in the eye and saying I am not going anywhere.
Peter Kamau Muthui, Founder
Because that is exactly what they are. Four ways we stand with every young person who comes to us.
Trauma-informed, confidential support from counsellors who understand care-leaver experiences, including survivors of abuse in care.
A discontinued sponsorship should not mean a discontinued future. We reconnect young people with learning and skills pathways that meet them where they are now.
For survivors pursuing justice, and for care leavers navigating rights, documentation, and systems never designed with them in mind.
A community of people who believe in second chances, so that no one has to do this alone.
When my sponsorship stopped, I thought my education had stopped with it. Someone at Second Chances looked me in the eye and said, I am not going anywhere. I am training now. I am not invisible anymore. Care leaver, Nairobi. Shared with consent, name withheld.
Second Chances grew out of Child in Family Focus Kenya (CFFK), a respected care-reform organisation championing family-based care. We take safeguarding seriously, and we are transparent about where support goes.
To every young person reading this: you don't have to do this alone.