NCS was founded to help with the growing problem of street kids in Naivasha. Initially launched as a feeding and teaching day-care programme in 1999, we now have our own residential site with fifty boys between the ages of four and seventeen. The shelter is their home, their school and their career agency. Our aim is to rehabilitate the boys and enable them to integrate fully into the local community. We measure our success by the number of boys that we get into jobs, by minimal return to the streets and by the sense of belonging that the boys feel, not just while they are at the shelter but even after they have left and gone on to become independent. The shelter is and will always be their family.