Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) is a Kenyan non-governmental organization (NGO) that has been operating since 2004 in Thika (45 km north-east of Nairobi), in the Kiambu, Muranga and other nearby counties, supporting projects aimed at preventing, supporting and rehabilitating children and street children who live situations of high social marginality every day.
Thika has a population of approximately over 645,000 people. It is an industrial town with extensive coffee and pineapple plantations dominating the geographical landscape. However, with the collapse of the Kenyan coffee market in the 1990’s continued economic decline caused unemployment rates to increase and a rapid growth in neighbouring slums such as Kiandutu (the largest slum in Thika), Kiang’ombe, Gacagi, and Madharau.
