Alarm as more parents send their children to the streets

Three girls hawk stools in the streets of Kisumu. [Denish Ochieng' and File, Standard]

It is 8pm and three children are wandering on the streets of Kisumu, selling homemade detergents and groundnuts.

The eldest, who appears about 10-years-old, clutches a bag with four plastic bottles of some coloured fluid, as his younger siblings trudge along.