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Today, the 1st of December every year is observed worldwide as "WORLD AIDS DAY". I have just come from an event organized by the government of Kenya nationwide to observe the day and reflect on the achievements and challenges that the Kenyan people have faced to date in tackling the HIV and AIDS pandemic. Invitations were mostly to those organizations and institutions that deal with "combating" the pandemic. What really caught my eye and attention, was a group of street boys and girls amidst a good number of school uniformed children and others having been accompanied by their parents.

The contrast and the irony of all those who were there talking about the youths and the children being our future hope for this country, one speaker after another standing and giving his/her speech and not even one of them addressing or even mentioning these children, even with the fact that they were seated on the grass right infront of everyone of them, sniffing glue from their containers and bottles. As they say or as it is said, these kids are a "ticking time bomb" awaiting to go off anytime. I have attended every celebration from the year 2000 at the same venue and the same thing has always been.

Most of these children are born of other street children who have grown up on the streets and become parents while most of them were still children. The hardships that they have to undergo, especially the girls are very unimaginable, including rape, molestation, violence and at times some of them are maimed permanently for life when they try to fight back and protect themselves. A good number of those who commit this crimes are so called "respectable people" during the day but when night comes, they turn into devils.

Though these has not been legally documented, a good number of the street girls have been infected with the HIV virus from these attacks and are spreading the virus among their street communities and also to those who dare attack and rape them or solicit for sex in turn for them to help and/or give them food. I shall be posting pictures of this event in a short while and I'll also send them to the media here in Kenya and await the response of the Kenyan people.

These is yet another reason why we are going to shoot a full feature film on the subject of the street children and use that film and others that shall follow soon thereafter, to sink sense into our larger community and the leaders, that if we do not act immediately on this issue, then not even our own children in our houses and home are safe. And more so, not especially our girls.

December 1, 2008 | 7:37 AM Comments  0 comments

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