Alarm over the increasing number of families sleeping in the streets

Principal Secretary for the State Department of Special Programmes Josephta Mukobe (left) gives foods stuff to street family living in Kisumu. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]

Agencies that rescue vulnerable children from streets have raised the alarm over increasing number of adults sleeping on streets.

A report titled Kisumu Quarterly Street Census shows that nearly 90 children are sleeping in public spaces despite spirited efforts to get them off the streets.