It is very important to note that as already mentioned in our statutes, that The Kenya National Children Games Federation raises some of its funds through families and youth institutions that are financially viable, especially when it comes to sports activities we organize both locally and internationally.

These families and institutions pay for most of the expenses related to their participation in sports and cultural events, programs and other activities organized by this Federation. Further to this, they also pay facilitation fee which goes towards the Federation’s official expenses related to such programs. It is also noteworthy that any balances accrued from such charges goes towards assisting the less privileged but talented children, rehabilitating street children, orphanage and rehabilitation children centers  through youth sports creative arts, culture and education.

Many thanks from this Federation goes to these great families and youth institutions in ensuring and recognizing the fact that at least they share part of their hard earned wealth with the less privileged in society. Please keep up with this spirit!

The Kenya National Children Games Federation, a national organization registered in Kenya in May 2006, will be responsible for identification, planning and implementation of all children games, by involving them in all sporting activities and events.

It is believed that Kenya today has about 1 million orphaned children as a result of HIV/AIDS (Report by National Aids Control Council, NACC). The majority of these orphans live in the streets of our major cities and towns. Very few could have been rescued and given temporary shelter and care at orphan centers, while others are believed to be under the care of guardians.

It is believed, therefore that the number of orphans living in the rescue centers throughout the country, may not reach 200,000 as a result of the few numbers of such centers, thanks to the efforts of the government and non-governmental organizations, which have made efforts in giving education support and vocational skills development of a number of orphans in the respective rescue and rehabilitation centers countrywide.

Whichever the case, one thing that has been forgotten over the years is if these less privileged and vulnerable children can become great Kenyan heroes in future as far as talents are concerned. Few counted cases through individuals and institutional efforts have produced great heroes from the streets such as “The Mighty King Kong” and other up coming artists like “The Machizis” and “The Ex-Hooligans, just to mention a few.

The sheer number of orphans has in many cases overwhelmed traditional community mechanisms.
It is obvious and well known that a lot of orphaned children migrate from where they once called actual homes to the streets of our cities and major towns as a result of the following factors: -

Deaths of at least one parent or both parents
Economic hardships for those coming from very poor backgrounds
Broken or unsustainable families

In all these cases, children who find themselves here often resort to running away to the streets, and continue to live there if their families don’t take actions to follow them up.

Life immediately becomes hard for new comers in the streets who must always be hard put, to pass through a number of tests in order to become full base members. The so-called bases in the streets are the dwelling places of a certain number of street families, which have the leaders who command such bases. Survival in the streets is comparable to that of wild animals where one’s own “strength” and criminality is the order of the day. The street children often use drugs and substance abuse in order to gain courage that enables them to perform evil acts.

Many former street children have benefited from our rehabilitation programs that include peer education trainings among others, and we therefore intend to further mobilize these street families from their various bases in the streets of our towns using sports, creative arts, beauty pageantry and assisting those above 18 years in acquiring National Identity cards as strategies to enable us understand them better to help identify their potential talents, that the program intends to promote in them.

The insecurity situation in our country today will not end if issues of orphans and street families are not addressed by all stakeholders. Proper mechanisms must be put in place to ensure there is no more influx of children to the streets, as it is a general knowledge that the future of any developed or developing nation must depend on its youth. These are youths that must be handled with care and needs the support from all sectors of society, hence our program launching.