A Kamwangi based non-governmental organisation has criticised the children’s department in the area for failing to take measures of rehabilitating and rescuing the increased number of street children in Kamwangi and Gatundu town respectively.
Jikaze Ufaulu, an organisation that pays partial school fees for the poor noted that the children’s department had not proved able enough to cater for the issues affecting abandoned children roaming in Kamwangi and Gatundu streets.
Represented by the organisations director Titus Mwangi, the organisation observed that the government had enough resources to not only rescue but cater for the education of the street children.
Speaking while giving food to 3 street children in Kamwangi town on Monday, Mwangi pleaded for the government’s quick intervention to help rehabilitate the homeless children.
"I am urging the national government to partner with the county leadership to help rescue these children from the streets especially with regards to the current cold weather by quickening the establishment of a children rehabilitation centre in Gatundu North," he said.
Mwangi further noted that the number of street children in the area had risen from an estimated number of 35 to 75.
He said that the organisation had rescued 18 children whom he said had also been enrolled for primary school education within Gatundu North sub county.
"We have so far rescued 18 children who are all below the age of 12 years. We have taken them to nearby school for basic education," he observed.