By Janelle Larson | Project Leader
In order to open a bank account, enroll at a university or gain formal employment, young people in Kenya must have a national identity card. Unfortunately, many of the children and youth at the CYEC were not born in a hospital, so they do not have a birth certificate or any other formal document to confirm their identity. The CYEC has been working the past several months to obtain birth certificates and national identity cards for their kids. This entails trips to the towns where the child was born, collecting signatures from local authorities who can confirm the parentage and general date of birth of the child, and moving the forms through the bureaucracy. While it may seem mundane, confirmation of identity is critical to advancement in the 21st Century.
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