CHILD LABOUR INTERVENTION PREVENTION AND EDUCATION (CLIPE)

www.clipe-kenya.org   - Email: clipe@kenyaweb.com

On the map it is in Central Province in Kenya but when you arrive there you will find that it is worse than Mathare or Kibera slums in Nairobi. The worse of it all nobody likes to go there as it is 5 kilometres from Thika-Nairobi road and very isolated. There's no communication and hardly any cars go there. This is a  remote area of Juja No.4, an area that time forgot. The community in this area has lived in dire poverty since 1968 when their great great great grandparents settled on a piece of land that was neither conducive for growing coffee nor food crops as the soil is mainly maram. Initially, only 45 families settled there but this number has since grown to 520 families with a population of two thousand plus. Most are illiterate, ignored, sickly, and hungry.  - FULL STORY