A country at war with its children: How State hurts most vulnerable

Child Welfare of Kenya Registered Trustee Ludeki Chweya makes his presentations before Social Protection Committee in consideration of 2025/2026 Budget Policy Statement at Bunge Towers, Nairobi. February 25th,2025. Present were Labour CS Alfred Mutua, PS Joseph Mutari and CWSK CEO Irene Mureithi.  [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Kenyan children are facing unprecedented budget cuts that threaten their well being as successive decisions expose the country’s vulnerable.

From serious budget reduction in the education sector to suspension of critical health programmes for school going children and an uncertain funding in higher education, the children are exposed.

And the latest blow, the government’s recent decision to defund and dissolve the Children Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK) casts a dark shadow over the future of more than 700,000 vulnerable children.