| dc.description.abstract | Street children had become part of the landscape in most Kenyan cities and towns. The life of the children on the streets was miserable and difficult and it was characterized by lack of shelter, food, security, basic medical care, lack of schooling and parental love among other necessities. On the other hand the children had contributed negatively to a drastic extent towards socio-economic development of the towns and the country as a whole. The children vandalized public social amenities and were a scare to city/town visitors. Sometimes they went as far as stealing and robbing innocent unsuspecting passersby.
The National Youth Service launched a rehabilitation programme for the street children back in the year 2003. Since then, no substantive evaluation of the programme had been done to gauge its impact. The purpose of this study was therefore, to investigate and evaluate the impact of the rehabilitation programme of street children being carried out by the NYS since the year 2003.
The study utilized case study methods on four out of 20 units of NYS. These were Gilgil College Unit, Naivasha Unit, Driving School Unit and the Motor and Transport Unit. These units combined, harboured the largest proportion of the street children undergoing rehabilitation. The basic unit of the study was the street children who were undergoing rehabilitation.
The respondents consisted^pf the street children, the counsellors, the trainers of the street children, and commanding officers of specific units under the study.
Various research tools were used to collect data based on probability sampling techniques. Both primary and secondary data were collected in order to increase the reliability of the research findings.
Data analysis was done through descriptive statistical tools as aided by statistical package for social sciences software (SPSS). In addition, qualitative data analysis was used to analyze field group discussions | en_US |
