Catching them young: Nakuru Children Assembly set for polls as Kenyan youth undergo electoral politics baptism
The exercise will involve the election of children who will exercise their civic duties in Kenya by electing their peers aged 17 years and below to represent them at the national levels.
Kenya embarks on transition of vulnerable children from charitable homes to family and community care
Phase one of the transition from CCI to family and community-based care, Pilot Khaemba noted, focuses on aligning the CCI leaders to fully comprehend the rationale and benefits behind transitioning their model of care from institutional care to family- and community-based care.
Mom in central Kenya jailed for 8 months for child neglect, feeding teenaged daughter on bhang
The teenaged girl not enrolled in school and had allegedly been introduced to substance abuse – cannabis sativa – by her mother. She fed on bhang when there was no food in the house. Authorities further noted that the girl was often forced to sleep on cold floors outside their squalid house, especially when her mother was entertaining lovers in their poorly maintained hovel.
New law rewriting story of children arrested for criminal offences as it ‘humanises’ Kenyan prisons
As Kenya rolls out this law across the country, the experience at the Murang’a Children’s Remand Home offers a powerful example of what a more humane, rehabilitative and protective juvenile justice system can look like.
