Kenya prepares for street children census with capital Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret headlining the count

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.

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