6-year-old Girl Who Impressed President At Drama Festival Living In Poverty

At no more than a few feet tall, six-year-old and confident, Emily Wanjiru stood before President Uhuru Kenyatta and his guests and brought down the house with her splendid display of “Mvua hii”, her award-winning solo during the just-concluded Kenya national drama festivals.

But behind that confidence, the six-year-old girl has lived her short, troubled life in turmoil, having been born by her mother on streets of Nairobi. K24TV reporter visited the family in Juja and witnessed the squalor and devastation they live in and filed the following report.