Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood

by Philip L. Kilbride, Collette A. Suda, Enos Njeru

Book Overview

As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Kenya, like some other nations in Africa and around the globe, has witnessed a rapid rise in street children. The street children in Nairobi come from single parent families which are mostly headed by women. Another group are AIDS orphans. This study documents how street children in Nairobi follow survival...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897898621
• ISBN13: 9780897898621
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"