Catholic priest who’s filling the bellies of street dwellers with hot meals

Father Barnabas Mugambi issuing out plates of food to street children and street families in Meru town. [Olivia Murithi/Standard]

A Catholic priest in Meru has become a beacon of hope for starving street families whose lives have been made intolerable by the ongoing dawn-to-dusk curfew.

Father Barnabas Mugambi was on a routine grocery run at Gakoromone market, Meru on March 29 when he encountered street children gathering rotten vegetables.