Second Chances walks alongside young people leaving care across Kenya. You are not too late, not too far gone, and not too much.
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Wherever you are on the journey, there is a way in.
Ageing out, discontinued from sponsorship, or leaving a children's home for any reason. This is the most uncertain moment, with no one waiting. We step into that gap immediately: stabilisation, counselling, safe referrals, and a community that does not disappear.
Start hereYou transitioned some time back, 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.
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Nairobi, where Second Chances began After his parents died, Peter and his five siblings were separated and placed in an orphanage in Nairobi. He stayed 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 programmes manager, a decade spent working from inside the system he had survived. Second Chances is what he once needed himself.
Read Peter's storyBecause that is exactly what they are. Four ways we stand with every young person who comes to us.
Leaving care often means carrying what happened inside it. Our counsellors are trauma-informed and understand the care-leaver experience from the inside. Confidential, paced by you, for as long as you need.
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A discontinued sponsorship should not mean a discontinued future. We reconnect young people with school, college, and skills pathways that meet them where they are now, and help them find the next door.
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For survivors pursuing justice, and for care leavers navigating systems never designed with them in mind. From a missing birth certificate or national ID to standing with a survivor through a case, at your pace, with someone beside you.
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The opposite of leaving care alone is belonging. A community of people who have walked this road, and people who believe in second chances. Mentors who stayed. A place to be known, not managed.
Find your peopleIt takes someone looking a young person in the eye and saying I am not going anywhere.
Peter Kamau Muthui, Founder
Working alongside
Illustrative partners, shown for layout. Real affiliations confirmed before launch.
Small, steady progress, shared honestly as it happens.
A safe place to land in the first weeks after leaving care: a desk, a kettle, and someone who answers.
More updates
An honest account of year one: who we reached, and where the money went.
Volunteer lawyers stand with survivors seeking justice and help recover lost documents.
The peers who stayed are the heart of the work. We are inviting more to join.
I had packed my bag to leave the home with nowhere to go. Second Chances helped me re-enrol and find a room. I sit my final exams next year.
Something happened to me in care that I never said out loud. The legal team believed me. For the first time, it isn't only mine to carry.
We grew out of Child in Family Focus Kenya, a respected care-reform organisation. We take safeguarding seriously, and we show exactly where support goes.
Illustrative allocation, replaced with audited figures before launch.
A clear child-protection policy and a confidential way to report any concern.
An honest breakdown of where every contribution goes, published and kept current.
Led by people who have walked this road, not looked in from outside.