International Day for Street Children- Awareness

OUR LIVES - STORY OF A STREET KID: We didn’t sleep at all last night. That’s why we’re sleeping now, during the day. Night is the most dangerous for us. The police come while we’re sleeping and catch you off guard, and grab and hit you. They’ll take you to Makadara court and then you’ll be sent to remand [detention] for months. Last night there was a big roundup and we had to move so many times to avoid being caught. There was a large group of police in a big lorry, driving around, looking for kids. They’re cleaning up the streets now to prepare for the Nairobi International Show [an annual international commerce and trade fair].

by Moses from Nairobi, Kenya

(Human Rights Watch - http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/promises/police.html)