The emergence of street people in Kenya: challenge for the church of the next millennium.

Abstract

There are children who have no tie with their family anymore. They work, live and sleep on the streets by day and by night. They are properly street children or people of the streets. They relate with others on the street rather than with any family or blood relative. For them, the street has a special meaning. It is a space of socialization, where they learn how to live or rather to survive. In short, the street is their real home, family, or last resource.

Finally, there are children or people for the street. They are waiting for the opportunity to join the street; they expect to find a better life on the street. Some are evenattracted by this life on the street. It is a place of freedom, a territory full of expecta-tion and promise.