When I was in Eldoret, a crew from Sky1, a news channel/service in the UK, came to do a piece about children displaced after the post-election violence. The British NGO, Save the Children, is working in Eldoret to this end. What Sky1 found was the large population of street children in Eldoret, making their way through life on the streets, heavily addicted to glue, marginalized, impoverished, vulnerable, without education or family support. The name they used, “The Glue Kids”, kind of makes me cringe — b/c I have pictures of most of these kids on my computer, along with their personal testimonials, and tried all summer to know them by name, as real children — however, it is wonderful that a news agency like this has shown concern and is spreading the message to the world that these children exist and need our help.
Please look at these PICTURES from Sky1
And watch this video of Ross Kemp, Sky1 broadcaster, bear witness to the situation of street children in Eldoret, Kenya.
