Ross Kemp Meets The Glue Kids Of Kenya

Travelling outside of Nairobi whilst filming Ross Kemp: A Kenya Special Ross learnt of the Street Kids of Eldoret's plight.

Witnessing the intolerable poverty in the town of Eldoret and meeting the teenage mothers, their children and the orphans who live on a rubbish dump, Ross learns that they are all addicted to glue.

"Those rubbish dumps will stay in my mind for the rest of my life," says Ross. "When a woman drops her child on its head and picks it up and puts a glue bottle in its mouth, those are the things that stay with you, to see that loss, that desperation." Ross continues, that "Viewers will definitely be disturbed seeing little kids sniffing glue which has been given to them by their teenage mothers who are addicted to solvents.”

Ross and the team meet Ex-Street, a local group of former street children who are working with Save The Children to lift these innocent children out of poverty, help ease their trauma and give them back a semblance of normal life by establishing programmes designed to address their immediate and long-term needs: food, shelter, clothes and schooling.