Over 700,000 children under the wing of the Children Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK) are now staring at a bleak future following the government's move to defund the agency in the ongoing re-organization efforts.
On Wednesday, It emerged that the Treasury had entirely cut the funding of CWSK to zero, down from an allocation of Sh900 million in the last financial year, following President William Ruto's directive for the merging of forty-two state corporations and dissolving of nine state corporations as part of fiscal consolidation efforts.
The committee heard that if government does not reverse the move to defund the society, the hundreds of thousands of children supported by the agency would be at risk of being rendered homeless, death and dropping out of school.
This came to the fore during a sitting of the Social Protection committee where Labour Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua had appeared to deliberate on the 2025/2026 Budget Policy statement.
