Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund has launched the National Policy on rehabilitating street families.

This policy offers a comprehensive and sustainable framework for addressing the rehabilitation needs of street families.

A cabinet Memorandum on the National Policy on Rehabilitation of Street Families 2023 says:

"To effectively support these families, we need well-planned and comprehensive strategies, all of which are addressed in this policy."

The policy says finalizing and implementing it are crucial steps towards realizing their vision of a country free of street families.

A survey conducted in 2018 showed that Nairobi was the leading county with street families and a population of 15,337.

It was followed by Mombasa 7,529, Kisumu 2,746, Uasin Gishu 2,147, Nakuru 2005 and other 42 counties with a total of 16,875.

"Over time, uncoordinated and unstructured interventions have hampered the effective design of strategies programmes and the implementation of interventions," the policy says.

It says the existence of a framework guiding the coordination of rescue, rehabilitation, reintegration, resocialization and prevention interventions for street families is incoherent.

The policy says there is a need for a coherent and holistic framework to support the realization of Chapter 4 of the Constitution regarding street families specifically in preventing the occurrence of street families, rescuing, rehabilitating, reintegrating and resocializing them.