Street Children Nairobi: Communion

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You might have seen several children on the street homeless starving without anyone helping them survive. I have seen millions of children in India begging for food, money, and shelter to live in; approximately 100-150 million children live on the street. They live on the street because some children are runaways and some are abandoned; they are rapidly rising over the years (Kiener). Many children are kidnapped and used for disparate reasons such as, sexual purposes and some are abused by their family members; the children suffer many cruelties. There are more than 60,000 children on the street living in Nairobi, Kenya (Humanitarian News and Analysis). When I was in India I often saw up to 10 children on the street when I went to school. A short fiction story by Uwen Akpan, Communion, is about a college boy, who desires to become a priest. He simultaneously has many things going on, and while he is practicing his position of becoming a priest, he encounters children who live on the street and have no manners or parental guidance. The children become thieves in order to survive. The ...

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