Education as a tool for empowering Kenya's street children for realization of Millennium Development Goals

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dc.contributor.authorNjoroge, Martin C.
dc.contributor.authorNdung’u, Ruth W.
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-13T07:15:04Z
dc.date.available2014-06-13T07:15:04Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-13
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractEducation is an empowering process that enables those who have been marginalized in the social, economic, political and cultural spheres to claim their status as fully participating members of the society. Nevertheless, research conducted in Kenya reveal that about 300,000 street children in Kenya have had no formal education and are hardly proficient in the two co-official languages used in the country – English and Swahili- languages in which vital information leading to improved livelihoods and participation in national development is available. Drawing evidence from a study on the literacy and numeracy needs of street children in Kenya, the paper argues that street children need to be equipped with appropriate knowledge through acquisition of numeracy, language and literacy skills for them to be fully empowered to be able to participate in the country's development and by extension help the country in the achievement of the first and second Millennium Development Goals: eradicating extreme hunger and poverty, and achievement of universal primary educationen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/9958
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectnational development, universal primary educationen_US
dc.subjectstreet childrenen_US
dc.subjecteducationen_US
dc.subjectempowermenten_US
dc.subjectmillennium Development Goalsen_US
dc.titleEducation as a tool for empowering Kenya's street children for realization of Millennium Development Goalsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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