Help homeless people
Editorial
By
Editorial
| Jul 26, 2021
Last week, KTN aired a moving story of street families picking the body of one of their own at City Mortuary for burial at Lang’ata Cemetery.
The street boy named Kamkono, they said, had succumbed to hunger. The stinging July cold could have hastened his death.
During Kamkono’s send-off, one of his friends posed a good question: “There is an agency that deals with street people and it usually gets millions of shillings. Where does the money go?”
Indeed, we have Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund (SFRTF). Unfortunately, its impact is hardly being felt by those it is supposed to benefit.
The number of street people is the same if not higher than in 2003 when SFRTF was established. In the 2020/2021 budget, the Fund was allocated Sh231 million. It should have used the money to, among others, alleviate suffering and avert needless deaths in the streets.
READ MORE
Why there is a boon in real estate amid tough economic conditions
Fresh plan to privatise 200 state agencies
Black market to thrive as Ruto tax plan suffers blow
Kenya Power loses Sh328m to vandals, wants copper export ban
Manufacturers warn Finance Bill proposals will raise costs, kill jobs
State House exceeds budget by Sh1 billion
Why academia might have failed businesses
Manufacturers propose zero taxation on raw materials in Finance Bill
Coca-cola to invest Sh23 billion to expand operations in Kenya
Coffee milling is no hard science; farmers should do it themselves
- Black market to thrive as Ruto tax plan suffers blow
- Fresh plan to privatise 200 state agencies
- Why there is a boon in real estate amid tough economic conditions
- Senator Omtatah, advocate Matindi want court to stop Finance Bill debate
- State House exceeds budget by Sh1 billion