The Nyamira County government has been urged to consider allocating funds to a number of children's homes in the region to avert incidents of children going a number of days without food.
Speaking on Wednesday during a visit to Nyaramba children’s home, youth activists led by Mr Charles Ombego challenged the Nyamira County Assembly to consider the request and include it in the supplementary budget.
“The county government of Nyamira should consider allocating funds to children’s homes. Many of these homes are facing a lot of difficulties and sponsors are facing myriad of challenges. We want the assembly to include social services in the supplementary budget,” said Ombego.
Ombego said his team had submitted a petition to the county assembly speaker and expressed his optimism that MCAs will consider the request without politicising the issue.
“My team has already submitted a petition over the same to the county assembly speaker’s office. We hope the MCAs will not politicise the issue and I am confident we will see it being implemented,” he added.
His counterpart Jason Ondimu said the 12 registered children’s homes in the region only required an estimated Sh2m monthly for sustainability.