Kenya rolls out national Ultra-Poor Graduation Strategy to address extreme poverty
Speaking during the launch, Principal Secretary for Social Protection and Senior Citizens Affairs Joseph Motari hailed the initiative as a transformative step in Kenya’s fight against extreme poverty.
Kenya prepares for street children census with capital Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret headlining the count
The counties with the highest concentrations of street persons are Nairobi with 15,337, Mombasa 7,529, Kisumu 2,746, Uasin Gishu 2,147 and Nakuru 2,005. Most of the street persons were males at 72.4 per cent and females at 27.6 per cent, the majority being the youth at 45.3per cent followed by children at 33.8 per cent and older persons at 2.4 per cent.
