Over the past years, the rate at which the number of street families has been growing is alarming. There has been no long term solution to this issue yet.

These people have nowhere else to go. The streets are the only place they call home. Their future seems to lie there.

They have become used to their situation of misery and neglect.

They neither have any say about their predicament nor any rights and justice.

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Every financial year, funds are set aside for helping these families but they end up in the hands of greedy and corrupt officials who have amassed a lot of wealth.

The government should hold those who are responsible for these scandals accountable.

Education is the only permanent solution to poverty. Every parent should be tasked with a

responsible for ensuring their child is educated.

Students should also be encouraged to complete their education because it is after they drop out, that most of them end up joining street families.

Financial support should also be given to struggling families so that they can afford to care for their children.

The excuse for failure to help these people is that everyone has their own problems and that they are all trying to make ends meet.

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There is a saying that says, 'a pauper has no spokesman'. Maybe it is time we considered becoming their spokespersons.

The Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund in Kenya has a mission to coordinate and develop capacity, mobilize resources to facilitate and monitor rehabilitative, re-integrative & preventive programmes for Street Families and a vision to be a country free of street families.

In conclusion, the government should follow suit and take serious consideration about the predicament of street families in Kenya.

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