HUMANITY: STREET CHILDREN
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Today I met this kid walking in the rain with no shoes on.
It felt bad. I looked at him and when he looked up to me and I clutched my bag
tighter and thought of fleeing back to my office. I had walked into town to get
to an ATM machine. But this kid was harmless, he said to me, “auntie nisaidie
chakula” He was asking for food… I thought next he would say to me to give him
some money but he did not. So I thought to myself, why not talk to him and
figure out his situation. So I shared my umbrella with him and I told him I’d
give him a banana that was in my office if he told me where his mum was.
Long story short, his mum stays with an ‘uncle’ who beats this poor kid up, so much that he decided to run away. In the streets, the older street kids took away his shoes and clean clothes. By the time he had told me all this we were at the gate and I asked the security guards to stay with him as I got him the banana and some loose money to buy some more food. I thought to call Nderi Sacred Heart Children’s Home but I called Pastor Tabitha from Joy Evangelistic Ministries to explain the whole situation. She broke down to me the Kenyan Laws and how a children’s home cannot take in a child without parental consent and admission of their inability to cater for the child’s basic needs through a signed affidavit at the police station. In addition to that, the Local Chief has to confirm the claims of the child and the parents by conducting a local investigation. In fact, Pastor Tabitha warned that if anyone (other than the police) took in this kid tonight, they might stand to be questioned by law and even be in trouble for taking someone else’s child home. I am still in talks with the Pastor and I am hoping that the kid will go to the cops and state his case.
I am willing to help (Day Time only) for obvious reasons. It’s hard to trust anyone and I wouldn’t want to put myself at a risky situation. I hope that this kid will come during the day and go to Central Police Station and that he will be assisted. Most children out there in the streets do not know that they could be taken in to a Children's home and that they can resume their studies in a better environment...
Long story short, his mum stays with an ‘uncle’ who beats this poor kid up, so much that he decided to run away. In the streets, the older street kids took away his shoes and clean clothes. By the time he had told me all this we were at the gate and I asked the security guards to stay with him as I got him the banana and some loose money to buy some more food. I thought to call Nderi Sacred Heart Children’s Home but I called Pastor Tabitha from Joy Evangelistic Ministries to explain the whole situation. She broke down to me the Kenyan Laws and how a children’s home cannot take in a child without parental consent and admission of their inability to cater for the child’s basic needs through a signed affidavit at the police station. In addition to that, the Local Chief has to confirm the claims of the child and the parents by conducting a local investigation. In fact, Pastor Tabitha warned that if anyone (other than the police) took in this kid tonight, they might stand to be questioned by law and even be in trouble for taking someone else’s child home. I am still in talks with the Pastor and I am hoping that the kid will go to the cops and state his case.
I am willing to help (Day Time only) for obvious reasons. It’s hard to trust anyone and I wouldn’t want to put myself at a risky situation. I hope that this kid will come during the day and go to Central Police Station and that he will be assisted. Most children out there in the streets do not know that they could be taken in to a Children's home and that they can resume their studies in a better environment...
Devastated,
Nekoye
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