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RESEARCH ON STREET

CHILDREN IN KENYA

BY

Philista M. Onyango

Katete Orwa

Aloys A. Ayako

J. B. Ojwang'

Priscilla W. Kariuki

REPORT ON

A STUDY ON STREET

CHILDREN IN KENYA

Submitted to:

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE

BY

A N P P C A N

MAY 1991

Urban Poverty Research and

Policy Evaluation on Street Children

and their Families in Kenya

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

A study of this magnitude is not possible without the support of many people. The research team is most grateful to the Attorney-General's Office for having conceived the idea of the study; the Kenya National Academy of Sciences for requesting the team to conduct it and the Ford Foundation for making the study possible. The team is indebted to the children and their parents who participated in the study; all those research assistants who assisted with the interviews; all the Government of Kenya officials, managers and leaders of NGO programmes, who gave their valuable time for the study. Our thanks go to ANPPCAN for administrative support and to Eva Ndavu for her technical input. Last but not least we extend gratitude to Naomi Mariwa and Florence Shiundu for putting the report in order. To all of you and on behalf of children in Kenya we simply say, "Asante Sana".

Executive Summary

This study of the phenomenon of street children in Kenya gives a general historical background to the problem, followed by a brief...