Black History Month

Entries in vulnerable children (2)

Monday
Dec092013

Food On The Table Builds Family Love!

What do children do when their parents cannot provide food? Certainly they do not spend much time at home, where their parents are stressed and short tempered!

The children go where there is a likelihood of being fed: to forage in the garbage dumps, to beg, and more tragically, to trade what they have- their little bodies- for a bag of chips, for sweets or whatever scrap is offered

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Friday
Dec062013

School Is Urgent!

 Who wants to be in school?….I d

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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