More than 60 Guardians to vulnerable children at Bondeni Children and Rescue Centre in Athi River town have been visiting the Home to beg for food on a daily basis.
This was disclosed by the Home's Director Florence Gitau who lamented that the situation had interfered with their feeding budget since they are forced to prepare more food than they did earlier.
“More than 60 Guardians of vulnerable children in this orphanage have apparently made a habit of visiting the home to beg for food on daily basis," said Gitau.
Gitau who addressed the press at the Home on Wednesday said that the guardians whose majority were elderly women with a bunch of youth and men started a month ago after it was reported on a local daily that a corporate Organisation had visited the Home and donated lots of food stuff.
She said the group of people checked in as from 7am daily to beg for breakfast when the children were being served before getting to School and then returned at lunch time.
Gitau argued that though the situation had increased the Home's daily expenditure, they could not send the beggars away because the Home is a charitable one with intent of addressing plight of destitute in the society.
She said that she plans to start a marathon event at the Home some time in June this year to fundraise for initiatives that would ensure start up projects and income generating activities for the beggars, a projects she says that she would make sure is sustainable and beneficial to both the Home and the community at large.