Background
npyt has been working in Trans Nzoia District since 1992 with special focus on the deprived, abused and/or street children. Initially, a 5.2 acre plot was bought in Liyavo settlement where children displaced by the ethnic clashes of the early 90s could find refuge. Buildings were
gradually converted or constructed for the children's and project's use while poultry rearing and market gardening were initiated to reduce the projects costs. In the year 2000 land was donated by the Trans Nzoia County Council for a second permanent project at Birunda settlement. They are now registered as Liyavo Village Community Project (LVCP) and Birunda Village Community Project (BVCP) respectively.npyt (then under ICT-K) was established to respond to the widespread ethnic clashes that were leaving whole communities landless and without means of survival. In the North Rift Valley makeshift IDP camps were established to which the project delivered relief supplies and later, having established women's groups and other community based organisations (CBOs), seeds, tools and other necessities were distributed for the communities to re-establish themselves.
By 1994, the worst of the violent clashes had ended and some of the IDPs were able to return home. Other displaced families settled more permanently where they were (Liyavo and Birunda are such settlements). These groups have become part of the large squatter population of Trans Nzoia.
As in all conflicts, it is the children who suffer the most. They have few rights and little understanding of why their lives have been torn apart in adult made conflicts.In the wake of the clashes, many more children made their way to Kitale town where the number of children living on the street dramatically increased. HIV/AIDS, starvation and general poverty had already forced other children onto the streets.
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