The Lady V's Blog (2)

Excerpt from a 2007 IRIN report: "Experts estimate that there are 250,000-300,000 children living and working on the streets [in Kenya], with more than 60,000 of them in Nairobi. Kisumu, on Lake Victoria, and Mombasa, on the coast, also have large populations of street children ... Street children face endless cruelties. Their rights have been violated many times by the adults who were supposed to protect them. In many cases these children are subject to sexual exploitation in return for foo… Continue

There’s a race going on and I want YOU to be a part of it. Here’s why: In a small village in Kenya, there is a little girl named Riziki. She and her two older sisters were forced to live on the street after their mother died, surviving on whatever scraps they could recover from pil… Continue