Do You Know What Your Child Is Doing In That Hostel?

On admission to a college in Nairobi parents rent a hostel for their daughters if they can’t find accommodation in a relative’s house. Hostels are preferred to private residence (or SQs) of parents because they’ve the reputation of being relatively cheaper, decent, strict, and tame, also secure. Most of the girls coming to City for higher education are in their teenage – just finished Form Four. Parents want them to be ‘somewhere’ so that they are not ‘spoilt’ or get pregnant in the village or ...