About Haven Rescue Home

Haven Rescue Home (HRH) is a safe place for teenage moms at the age of 18 or younger. One of the many problems that comes with poverty in Kenya is that young girls get pregnant and don't finish school.

The prevailing mentality in society is that once you become a mother, your schooling is over, mothers should take responsibility for a child and provide for their family.

The girls who choose to continue their education have so far only had the option of giving up their child.

Many homes take in babies given up by families, but only a few homes operate that help both mother and child.

HRH's goal is to give these girls a chance for a better life. While they finish schooling, they are invited to live with their child at the home and receive the necessary help to be able to take care of both school and a child. By finishing school, they have a better chance to get a good job and can move back into society as stronger individuals.

With this, the cycle of poverty is broken, but most of the girls come from families that have always lived in poverty. This solution is therefore more sustainable than a home for orphans and gives mothers and children the unique opportunity to get a footing in life together.

HRH strives for the work that takes place in the home to be professional and make the clients strong enough to support themselves and their children. The home has eight employees, a trained social worker, a part-time psychologist, a kindergarten teacher and other employees who have worked at the home for a long time and received the relevant training.

In addition to running a home for young mothers, the association supports young people in their local area to study, as well as helping single mothers in most cases to start a business to support themselves and their children.
The home was founded in May 2017 by Anna Þóra Baldursdóttir.
Since 2017, the home has housed over 70 people, either for a longer or shorter period of time. Of them, 21 live in the home today.