Chapter one: Preliminary Despite, individual capabilities and personal circumstances that distinguish street Children in Kenya, for all of them the social status of the street child, albeit the presence of delinquency as social labeling happens as such: thief, glue addict, prostitute and other connotations and for the pressing reality, research may emphasize that being street child is product of delinquency as one with beginning and for most an end that culminates in transition into some adult status. Aside, Salzman (1998) wrote, "of great interest for us is the impact an event has on people's lives, the way it redirects lives, shapes them, terminates them, liberates them. People do not live in static, stable environments" (p. 3). Such events as, for example, droughts, floods, famines, wars, depressions, and the like are all made up of constituent micro events involving people, places, and special circumstance. One hopes that one day this ongoing event will become only a...