The government through the State Department for Social Protection has commenced training of over 300 social workers drawn from all the 47 counties who will be enumerators in the up-coming national census of street families even as preparations for the exercise gets on top gear.
Chairperson of Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund (SFRTF) Ms Mary Wamboi explained that the national census of street families that will be conducted countrywide will be carried out by the State Department for Social Protection in collaboration with Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) and with the support of United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Ms Wamboi said the census aims to obtain segregated data to help in conducting rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of street families and would help in obtaining an actual street population for planning on how to zero rate street families.
She said the census was also aimed at providing appropriate living conditions and identifying the best method of reintegrating street individuals into society. "We are undertaking a census so that we can have a breakdown not only of identifying which ones are Kenyans and those who are not but also where they come from in Kenya," she said.
