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Street children in Nairobi

It is estimated there are around 250,000-300,000 street children in Kenya, around half of them aged between eleven to fifteen years old. Alarmingly, children below the age of five constitute 7% of the known total.

What is the cause of street children in Kenya?

The reasons may be drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse, compounded by poverty at home among others. The report found that most of the street children were from parents that were alcoholic and had neglected their children.

What are the challenges facing street children in Kenya?

Starving, treated with brutality and subjected to slave labour and child trafficking if caught, these street children are being deprived of their basic human rights: necessities to survive and education not to mention a childhood of love and hope.