Hope as state moots plan to place 5 million orphans under family care

Orphans John Omondi and his sister Zilphah Odhiambo at their homein Kanyakwar village, Kisumu West Sub-County. Government is planning to move vulnerable children from charitable institutions and harsh living areas. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The government will move more than 5 million orphans and vulnerable children from charitable institutions and other harsh living areas to the comfort of families.

The measures announced in Kisumu by Labour and Social Protection Chief Administrative Officer Abdul Bahari will benefit more than 8 million children made vulnerable by poverty, harmful cultural practices, family breakdown and abandonment.