A Non-Governmental Organization in conjunction with Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund has begun a program to remove and reunite more than 1,000 street families in Eldoret town.
Solwodi Ladies Sports Association (SOLASA) director Elizabeth Nyambura said the organization aims at rescuing, rehabilitating, reintegrating and resocializing street families.
Under the program, the government's key objective is to have a country free of street families.
“We have done families tracing to identify their parents and so far we have traced 15 families and we are doing reintegration,” said Nyambura.
She reiterated that SOLASA is mandated to cover the entire Uasin Gishu county with a major focus on street families in the Urban slums Eldoret.
Nyambura spoke at Ndupawa on Wednesday during a sensitization meeting to 60 village elders from Langas estate which is a major source of the street children in Eldoret town.
“We have also done home visits to access homes, establish an environment and prepare the parents if they are willing to receive the children,” she added.
The SOLASA director reiterated that they also use sports and feeding programs to reach out to the street families in the slums of Eldoret.
She called on chiefs and their assistants to stop hostility against the street families saying that many of the chiefs threaten, abuse and beat the children which make many of them feel intimidated.
Nyambura also appealed to extended family members of the children to be more accommodating and welcome those who are willing to reunite with their families.
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