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Come up with concrete strategy to remove child beggers from the streets

A disabled woman uses a rope to tie her child onto herself to control her movement as she begs from passersby along Muindi Mbingu streets in Nairobi on October 01, 2021. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

In 1969 Elvis Priestley sang ;In the ghetto', a song written about street children. It was an instant hit. But people didn't listen to the message. They listened to the music. If we don't listen too, we will soon face the music.

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