Street Children Assistance Network of Nakuru (S.C.A.N.N.) is Kenya’s foremost charitable institution for the homeless. It was founded in 1998 with the intention to provide a caring home for street children and orphans who have no other alternative or hope for the future, except to turn to crime. SCANN initially began its operations as a “soup kitchen” and an “emergency shelter”. Today SCANN not only provides the children with a home and three full meals a day, it looks after their educational, health and leisure requirements and also provides a platform for their social and religious development.