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Study: More than 20,000 Kenyans live on the streets, majority are men

A group of Kenyans will not be travelling “home” for Christmas because the street is their home. They are the homeless; the wretched of the earth.

Poorly dressed and fed, they live at the mercy of the elements and the dangers that stalk the night in East Africa’s largest metropolis. Their homelessness revolves around evictions, economic hardships, poverty, physical and mental problems, broken families and lack of affordable housing.

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