Sad Report From Kenya
 

From the AP: "This time last year, Janet Kimani spent her days at school and her nights fighting with her little brothers over what to watch on the family's flickering TV set. Now, she sleeps all day and sells her skinny, 14-year-old body at night for $3 an hour. 'There are so many of us girls on the streets these days,' Janet, dressed in a black miniskirt and white blouse, told The Associated Press in Eldoret, a western Kenya town that was a flashpoint of this year's deadly postelection crisis. Prostitution and sexual exploitation are on the rise in the wake of the violence, which killed more than 1,000 people, eviscerated the economy and forced tens of thousands of children to leave school, doctors and human rights groups say."

Comments (4)

No. 1 · brenda

i hope that sen obamas family is not all caught up in this mess. doesnt he have a brother or a cousin who is a government official in kenya? hhhmmmm

Posted: Jul 31, 2008 at 11:56 am
No. 2 · Chic Noir

^^^Even if he does, it's not his fault.

Posted: Jul 31, 2008 at 9:23 pm
No. 3 · Daria at Gorgeous Black Women

Well, if they are, perhaps that will move someone to action.

Posted: Jul 31, 2008 at 10:35 pm
No. 4 · Chic Noir

Daria, I wonder about that. I didn't read anything about Barack and his thoughts on the riots that broke out in Kenya after the election. If you have a link, hook me up.

Posted: Aug 1, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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