Father Arnold Grol was a Roman Catholic Missionary from the Netherlands. He moved to Kenya in the 60s and served at St. Theresa’ Eastleigh Catholic church, whose neighborhood hosts some of Kenya’s
most vulnerable and poor communities.
Father Grol never shied away from interacting with these communities in their homes and abodes. He made the streets part of his mission. He took interest in the rising number of children in the streets, back then referred to as ‘parking boys’. This inspired the birth of Undugu Society of Kenya, in 1973, that sought to address the challenges that the children faced in the streets.
Since then, Undugu has expanded its mandate to dealing with myriad challenges faced by poor and vulnerable children and their families, besides implementing innovative and impactful projects targeting
street connected youth. Undugu enhances the social economic resilience of these vulnerable groups to help them navigate and improve their lives, thereby reducing their propensity to homelessness and street connectedness. Since inception, Undugu has impacted and transformed the lives of thousands of street connected families.
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“Survival. It seems too limited a term, to characterize the achievements of the Undugu Society since 1973. Surely, if one were to gather together, inside a football stadium, all the thousands of Nairobians who have benefitted in one way or another from Undugu’s multi-faceted, community-based approach to urban development, then the word “survive” would seem decidedly understated. For those who have, by circumstance or choice, found themselves living in slums such as Mathare Valley, Kibera, Korogocho or Dandora, Undugu has likely helped them to not only survive, but in many cases, to thrive.”