VILLAGES COULD BE CARRYING MORE ORPHANS THAN EXPECTYED

An expert in orphaned children care in Yala town, Mrs Jane Pila, has said that the villages, especially in the area where she serves could be carrying more orphaned children than expected .The expert said this when we visited her in her office at the Yala C.D.C church where she operates from .The church provides for the needy children in the community .It feeds and educates them and sometimes even clothes them.







Such problems of street children or orphaned children, widowed women and homeless aged people were in the past seen as a problem of the cities and urban areas only but recently discoveries stunned the experts when they learned that the situation is almost the same in the villages.







The expert sent a word to those people with the power in our country and institutions, including the Odera Akang’o campus of the Moi University in Yala, to build more facilities to help the increasing numbers of these kinds of people in our country.