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Friday
Dec062013

School Is Urgent!

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On the streets of Kibera hungry children are very vulnerable. Consider… what might a child be asked to do for a bag of chips? Both girls and boys are drawn into the sex trade, often contracting HIV/AIDS, the girls falling pregnant very early to become trapped in a lifetime of poverty. The boys are drawn into drug use, gangs and criminal activity of all kinds. Many do not reach the age of twenty.

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