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Street children: Kenya's time bomb everyone ignores

Singer Jaguar talking to street kids about drug abuse. Peddlers sell drugs to the street people on credit to permanently keep them hooked and in debt

Junior is 17 years old. He has been living on and off the streets of Westlands for the last ten years, eking out a living on the plush streets of Westlands, where inebriated revellers part with generous amounts of money or leftovers of sophisticated foods.

Junior became addicted to street life because he was making as much as the housegirls in Westlands. But one thing that he did not contend with was that he would grow up and lose the childhood innocence and charm that made people easily part with money.

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