In response to viewers’ messages requesting further information on how to get involved with charities working with Kenya, following our report on child sex abuse in that country, we can post the following details:

KENYAN ORGANISATIONS FIGHTING AGAINST CHILD SEX ABUSE

Offers of help to the sexual violence clinic at Mombasa Coast General Hospital should be directed to -

Dr Heltan Maganga
Chief Administrator
Coast Province General Hospital
PO Box 90321
Mombasa, Kenya
East Africa

Donations to the clinic will be earmarked for specific child-friendly outreach activities which will be monitored and evaluated to assess the effectiveness in supporting Mombasa’s children.

Donors providing email addresses will receive reports on our progress. Cheques can be addressed to the Coast Province General Hospital-GBVRC.

Offers of help to the Coast Women’s Network Centre, which rescues and works with child prostitutes, should be directed to Ms Eve Ngoroge at Women’s Network Centre, Mnazi Mmoja Rd, P.O Box 88739 Mombasa, Kenya.

Email: womens.network2@gmail.com

This is the details for their account at CFC Stanbic, Mombasa:-

To the credit of :-
Women’s Network Centre,
A/c No. 0140030349601

via

HSBC BANK PLC
(FORMERLY MIDLAND BANK PLC)
27-32 POULTRY
LONDON EC2P 2BX
SORT CODE : 400515
SWIFT ADDRESS: MIDL GB22
A/C CfC STANBIC BANK LTD
A/C NO 35834646
SWIFT ADDRESS: SBICKENX

Offers of help to the youth football team in Malindi, Kenya, which encourages teenagers to stay away from the sex trade, should be directed to Ms Mary Rukungi, Secretary, Frifonet football Club, PO Box 5758, Malindi, Kenya. Email is – marianattabetty@hotmail.com. ormarianattabetty@gmail.com

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Many thanks to all of you for your responses to our film.

I can assure you, it was just as harrowing a film to make as it was to watch.

Several of you have asked what you can do about the awful problems we highlighted in Kenya.

We will post details of appropriate organisations on our website as soon as we can.

Many thanks, Jonathan

LATEST: You can now find information on how to get involved with appropriate organisations here.

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Kenya’s beaches are the stuff holiday brochures are made of – mile after mile of glistening white sand, kissed by equatorial sun. Tourism is a major money spinner for one of the world’s poorest countries, but Kenya’s tropical paradise hides a dark secret.

We have been on a harrowing journey – from nightclubs where European men pick up 12-year-old Kenyan girls; to an orphanage where children as young as six have found sanctuary after sexual abuse by foreign tourists.

A journey into a world of cruelty and desperation, a world we could scarcely have imagined. And both talking and filming with children brutalised and traumatised by their experiences has not been easy.

Our journey began in the nightclubs on the outskirts of Mombasa. Visit the Mtwapa suburb after midnight, and white male European tourists are busy ogling and fondling teenage girls.

The teenagers wear high heels, or pay a bribe at the club door to get in. The ultimate prize is a “muzungu ” or white man, who will pay for sex five times what a Kenyan labourer can earn in a day.

But the price these girls are paying is nothing less than a stolen childhood. read more

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I am told the Americans are in the midst of a major rethink of their policy towards Somalia, as fighting within the last few days threatens to topple the government in Mogadishu, such as it exists. read more

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Somalia is off-limits to most western reporters and five Somali journalists have been killed there so far this year. Aid workers are frequently kidnapped – a million dollars is the going rate to have them released – and four WFP workers have been killed since last August.
 
So, to put it mildly, this was a difficult investigation to mount, relying heavily on the skills and bravery of the Somali member of our team. read more

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To mark the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has released photographs depicting the lives of survivors.

These pictures come straight from DFID, and are not a product of Channel 4 News journalism, but they do tell an interesting tale of those who suffered, survived and have had to rebuild their lives. read more

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Here’s another country on the global recession’s front line: Botswana, hailed as the longest continuous multi-party democracy in Africa.

Botswana is classified by some economists as an “upper middle-income” country, but the wealth is very unevenly spread, so – according to DFID – 49 per cent of the population lives on less than $2 a day. read more

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My seasoned and accomplished contact who operates in the highest echelons of the multinational world reports attending a number of gatherings of economists over the past few weeks.

He says they are all, without exception, pessimistic. He’s not entirely convinced they are right. And nor am I.

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Obscene would be putting it too strongly, but it did seem odd talking about dead African children amid the gilded Louis XIV interiors of Lancaster House last week.

One of London’s finest townhouses, just across the road from Buckingham Palace, this is where Rhodesia’s independence from Britain was signed in 1979. read more

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