Shame as Nairobi turns its children into hawkers

Children hawking groundnuts along mama Ng'ina Street at night. [PHOTO: TABITHA OTWORI/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: Fancy is a class six primary school pupil at Uhuru Primary School in Nairobi, Buruburu area. She is also among hundreds of young children who throng the city hawking their wares.

Unlike other children who head home to begin working on their homework once school is done, the 11-year-old rushes home to change before picking her rolls of groundnuts, prepared by her mother to hawk around the city.