Getting families off the street

Fred Achola with his wife, Liz (left) and their children, Luke, Christine Rita and Arnold Grol. [PHOTOS: JECKONIA OTIENO/ STANDARD]

BY JECKONIA OTIENO

In 1993, street children surfaced in Mombasa. The provincial administration had no idea how to handle the new phenomenon, so the provincial children’s officer travelled to Nairobi to look for Father Arnold Grol, a Catholic priest who had done a lot of work with street families in the capital city. Fr Grol picked a team to help out in Mombasa, and one of its members was Fred Achola, mostly known as Bokey.