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    "content": "(Mr. Keya): Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) My Ministry does not have comprehensive records of the number of street children in the country. However, a limited survey done in 1997, in collaboration with UNICEF, established that there were 60,000 street children in Nairobi, and estimated that the national population was about 250,000 street children. The countrywide distribution of this estimate is not known, since no proper census has been conducted. (b) The Government has put in place various programmes and facilities to deal with the influx of street children in Nairobi. These efforts are collaborative, where other Government agencies as well as development partners are involved and include the establishment of Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund under the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government. My Ministry, in collaboration with the Trust Fund, is undertaking a programme of establishing child protection centres countrywide, which are to be used as fronts in a co-ordinated support system for street children. Already such centres have been operationalised in Garissa, Eldoret and Mombasa. The above centers provide nutritional and psycho-social support, guidance and counseling, training in vocational skills, recreation and arrange for the children’s re-integration to their families, communities and formal schools. The establishment of the centers outside Nairobi is a strategy to stem the influx of children to the City. Furthermore, the Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund, in collaboration with UNICEF, is putting up a child protection center in Nairobi to serve those children who are already in the streets of the City. (c) Apart from the above measures, other sustainable measures to deal with the problem of street children are the drafting of the Children’s Act (Amendment) Bill, which is aimed at enhancing child care and protection in the country, hence stemming incidences of abandonment, neglect and all other forms of child abuse, which drive children to the streets. As soon as it is ready, the Bill will be brought to Parliament for debate."
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