For most of us, getting high is a matter of choice and preference, like, “Hmm, do I want to smoke weed and watch The Incredibles tonight, or would I rather get a bag of coke and go talk shit with my buds?” When your nights are spent sleeping on cold concrete and your whole family is dead or missing, however, you take what you can get to reach oblivion asafp. For thousands of children living on Nairobi’s streets, a few shillings worth of shoe repair glue makes the nights a little less frigid and an empty stomach a little less insistent.

The glue is typically huffed out of empty plastic water bottles. It’s highly addictive and a powerful neurotoxin. Kids get hooked as soon as they hit the streets, some as early as eight years old. Five years later they are babbling and foaming at the mouth like rabid dogs.

Local rich Indians in their new Mercs avoid them like the plague and white tourists act like they don’t see them. To fight back for their lost place in the world glue kids hold up passers-by with human feces. They are prepared, if you don’t pay them, to wipe it all over you. A new trick they’re developing is the threat of throwing battery acid on your face.

Feel bad for them if you want, but steer clear of these little fuckers, ‘cause they won’t have mercy on you. The local press refers to them as “street urchins.” That might sound charmingly Dickensian, but just look at them. Their clothes are coal black from dirt and diesel fumes. They walk around snot nosed and bare-foot in a crazed glue haze. Street urchins? More like the living dead.

John, 14, has been on the Nairobi streets and hooked on the stuff—affectionately called “gum” by the kids—for four years. On glue, John explains in his native language of Kiswahili, “You’re not hungry so much. You feel better. If you’re beaten, it doesn’t feel so bad.”

John’s story is emblematic of most of the glue kids. Their parents die or abandon them, or they’re spit out by poor families and teenage mothers and told to fend for themselves. As John puts it, “First my mama died, then my father died. I went to live with another mama, but that mama didn’t like me, she liked her own [kids] better, so I left.”

John wakes at dawn after maybe three hours of sleep. He will devote most of the day to begging for handouts to fund the next hit. “Muzungus [white people] are the best targets,” John said, as all white people in Nairobi are perceived as being rich. “Sometimes I park cars [for spare change] if a big boy is not there.” Yeah, sure you do.

The street-kid social structure resembles wild dog packs. Several of these packs gang up and claim territory, and often they turn on each other and even themselves. The older-boy alpha males are those who, at 16, have lived long enough to claim their position at the top of the glue-sniffing food chain. Using their advantage of age, size, and street smarts, they search and feed on the younger, street freshmen (like John).

John has yet to arrive at the top of the street-kid hierarchy. He hasn’t reverted to desperate measures such as robbery or even murder. “If they [older boys] see a muzungu give me something, they beat me and take it. Once someone gave me shoes. They [older boys] beat me and took my shoes,” John said.

After a morning devoted to begging, John will have enough money to re-up on his glue supply. Shoeshine vendors that line the streets of downtown Nairobi are the principle suppliers. The vendors will make them pay five Kenyan shillings (Ksh)—roughly one seventh of a cent—for an ounce of the yellowish goo.

John fills in the rest of the afternoon rummaging for food in the refuse piles behind downtown restaurants. Around teatime for most other people in Kenya, the street kids gather in a culvert next to a downtown park celebrating the nation’s independence. They share the day’s news and wash their clothes in the putrid water that flows like a river from the city.

John’s best friend, Peter, is also 14 years old. They partner to protect each other. Peter’s story is equally tragic.

“I was in St. Austin’s [school], then my father died,” Peter said. “My mother did not have enough money and we had to move. We did not have money for school fees. Then we did not have money for our home and we moved again. [There was] no money for food, so my mother told me I have to look after myself. So I came here.”

By nightfall the kids recede into the darkness and try their best to stay alive until the next morning. John and Peter huddle together on a slab of cement behind a steak house in an alley in downtown Nairobi.

When they find the extra money, they give a local askari (night watchman) 20 Ksh to check on them. Without the protection, John and Peter are vulnerable to being robbed and even raped.

So, want to dish some blame? Look no further than the white man and America’s brutal foreign policy—just kidding. Kenya is fucked because of Kenya’s incredibly corrupt government. In the scheme of pan-African governmental-ranked corruption for 2004, Kenya comes in third place behind Nigeria and Cameroon, according to the international non-governmental organization (NGO) Transparency International.

In general, the Kenyan government turns a blind eye to John and Peter. Through the late 1990s, the estimated number of homeless kids on Nairobi’s streets neared 60,000. Now, there are no accurate statistics to calculate the city’s persistent problem. We do know that at least 50,000 children within Nairobi’s city limits do not attend school, according to the Irish-based NGO GOAL. Fortunately, Nairobi hasn’t unleashed death squads to quell the problem, like they have in Rio de Janeiro. Without a governmental partnership, aid agencies capable of rehabilitating the street kids flap in the breeze. Meanwhile, local authorities do not crack down on glue sales, nor is sniffing it against the law.

The statue symbolizing Kenya’s independence casts an ironic midday shadow in Nairobi’s Uhuru (Freedom) Park. It was, at one time, a symbol of hope. Nairobi is now a place to be survived, leaving little room for thoughts of a brighter future. But despite their circumstances, these are still kids and kids daydream. Since seeing planes take off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as a little boy with his father, Peter has dreamed of going back to school and becoming a pilot. But does he really think he’ll get there? No. Peter smiles and matter-of-factly says, “Chakara [street kids] can’t be pilots.”

The glue kids fulfill their last and greatest service to their country by dying quietly, their stories and dreams dying with them. And maybe that’s the kindest way. The path they follow inevitably leads to a day when friends awake to find that Nairobi’s streets have claimed one more life among them. The gum that makes life bearable also makes life really, really short. The lungs of habitual users become scarred and begin to fill with fluid. A chronic wet cough precedes a slow death from pneumonia. John has seen this with his own eyes again and again.

“First they cough a lot. Then later, they get tired and sleep a lot. Then they go to sleep and can’t wake up.” But John is not afraid of dying. He’s resigned to his fate. “You die. Lots of kids die. Monkey [a friend] die. Kimau [another friend] die. Ben die. A little gum makes you not so scared.”

ROGUE WIRE
[We put “Nigerian Orphans” on the cover because everyone hates Kenyan orphans. It was the only way to get you to read this article—Ed.]

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Rouge Wire never says anything like "I arrived in Nairobi on Wednesday Night and met John"...etc. If you look at any human interest story in any media outlet, the author will mention such direct references to set the mood and create a sense of reality. This article never does that. It's just a bunch of statements about these kids with no reference to how this information was actually gathered. By the way, if Africa was never colonized in the way it was, it's unlikely that its "countries" would be run by a bunch of small-dicked corrupt military despots. Don't you think? By the way, by the way. Why do people always mention spelling when they disagree with a somebody's argument? That's like dissing a person's wardrobe by commenting on their breath. You never made a typo? Subject: armchair quarterbacks Date: Jun 29 2005 08:56:06 PM Author: Mojo V.I.C.K.I.E., knows a lot about the history of Africa and foreign policy, yet doesn't address the obvious connection between government corruption and the poor in Africa getting screwed over..brilliant. I guess you could say V.I.C.K.I.E. is 'knowledgeble.' p.s. Learn to spell you twat. Subject: just drop it.. like its hot Date: Jun 25 2005 02:55:21 PM Author: V.I.C.K.I.E. brava brava.. thanks for showing how ignorant you are making good use of the work fuck so you can show us unworthy sheep your bad ass provocative "vice" side "Kenya is fucked because of Kenya’s incredibly corrupt government." How naive and wonderfully simplistic.. if only it were that simple. I'm wondering if the the author ever thought to read up on the history of Africa about how geography and imperial conquest have negatively affected people on that contintent and how the first world nations that continue to exploit Africa for economic gain turn a blind eye to the most vunerable individuals, the children. A first year poly sci brat at a second rate college is more knowledgeble. If vice wants to deal with stories like this I would suggest stop editorializing and stick to the facts.. put the author on gross jar duty .. Subject: stupid losers Date: Jun 22 2005 11:12:52 AM Author: stan yeah, corporate america would sell rat droppings if they could get away with it (to all people including white americans), but to blame them for oppressing kids in africa is dumb. corporate america would like nothing better than for africa to be stable and prosperous, so that the africans could then buy all their crap consumer products. Subject: awesome. Date: Jun 22 2005 01:46:25 AM Author: R This is a great article. Fuck the naysayers. Subject: Thriller Date: Jun 21 2005 12:33:18 AM Author: Chad I blame that niggar Michael Jackson myself. He should have some of his little fellow African niggars over to Neverland but noooo he only wants little honky kids or spic kids or niggar midgets to come and play. Subject: chromers Date: Jun 20 2005 05:59:20 AM Author: realitybiten spend a day in brisbane's fortitude valley, australia is seeing it in a big way too. Subject: huffing glue is a serious world problem Date: Jun 18 2005 05:55:44 PM Author: joaquin it is affecting africa, asia, and latin america. what this article neglects to notice is that it is america's corporate greed that causes this shit. most of the glue these kids sniff is made here in the US, and it is actually so toxic we do not allow it to be sold here. i've read elsewhere that it is possible for the glue manufacturers to change the formula so that it is not addictive, but the companies say the change in machinery would be too expensive. in some places it is the addicted kids who are the primary buyers of the product, not the shoe shiners. americans making money from the destruction of young people's lives... what the fuck else is new? Subject: kibera + Date: Jun 17 2005 04:00:12 PM Author: kitisuru note to lbc: kibera is nairobi's ghetto. it's the second largest slum in the world (2 million +). note to vice: impressive article. i'll be on the lookout for more rogue wire. it's a small world we live in... Subject: glue kids, vice drug issue Date: Jun 17 2005 09:09:37 AM Author: sam This whole issue is pretty interesting. People can criticize it all they want, but honestly come on: Vice is giving a fairly balanced representation of the different groups of people who use drugs. Don't hate! When it's the crack rapper guys, everyone shits on Vice for being too hip,or devoid of content, or whatever. When it's the glue-huffing street urchins, people are shitting on Vice for being fake, or laughing at the article because it's too earnest or it's not doing anything to "make the world a better place". Everyone just loves to bitch about it. This article moved me. Maybe I'm not going to Nairobi to help glue addicted adolescents (if i did, i'm sure i'd last less than a week before having a nervous breakdown), but at least I'm able to get sad when I read this stuff. I'm not about to act all jaded just from reading about it,when I've done coke all of five times in my whole life. Stop acting jaded, you assholes. Kids getting rejected by their caregivers and dying from glue-pneumonia is SAD. it's sad, sad, sad. Thanks for the article, Vice. It was a nice break from irony and hip hop. Subject: Jokes Date: Jun 17 2005 04:24:40 AM Author: teach To all the losers making fun of this article: YOU SUCK! This shit is NOT funny. All you assholes making fun of this ought to feel pretty shitty about yourselves. But you probably won't. That's what makes you assholes. Grab some fucking sense. This shit happens, and it sucks. It even happens here in Canada. Native kids in Labrador huff gas to escape poverty and a shitty life. They sometimes even burst into flames (no joke) because their bodies get so infused with gas fumes. And insensitive fuckers like you think that you can hone your ironic sense of humour at the expense of this kind of suffering... It just sucks. Eat shit and die! Subject: New Yorker Fiction Date: Jun 16 2005 03:00:01 PM Author: Reggie There's a fiction debut piece by a Kenyan Jesuit priest in the current issue that's all about this shit. I almost didn't believe it reading that story and I probably would have felt the same if I had read this first. But these two totally fact check eachother. The situation's fucked. Oh and this: "So, want to dish some blame? Look no further than the white man and America’s brutal foreign policy—just kidding. Kenya is fucked because of Kenya’s incredibly corrupt government." comes completely out of left field and isn't written in the same voice as the rest of the article at all. Gavin just forgot to put his little italicized, bracketed Ed. note on it. Subject: third worlds suck Date: Jun 14 2005 09:33:22 PM Author: rkevvy the orginal king of soul im in the philippines right now and theres kids like this everywhere. instead of money it would be better to buy them some food. money only goes to what they call "rugby" here. Subject: no Date: Jun 13 2005 04:30:09 PM Author: yes where can i get some of this "gum" as they say? Subject: dumb article Date: Jun 12 2005 11:09:47 AM Author: Kid from Somalia I honestly think this article is absurd,I think almost all of it is somewhat realistic but yet I feel that it is not the kid's fault that they are living like this,I believe it is actually society's fault because nobody cares and thats just sad. Subject: FAKE Date: Jun 11 2005 03:13:08 PM Author: vioce sucks This article seems really fake and made-up. Oh, and also it reads like it was written by a 10-year old. Back to school! ...or back to sucking Gavin's dick for another article! Subject: nothing Date: Jun 10 2005 06:24:28 AM Author: sense this shit is fucked. Its an increase on social problems all round. Im in thai land now and I just saw this addict (coke?) beat her baby brother (or son) against the window cos he wasnt crying loud enough to get attention. And the worse part is, no one gives a shit. I gave some money but she doenst stick ard to talk or understand. Subject: s!Q Date: Jun 09 2005 03:56:44 PM Author: LOL3RZ kill whitey Subject: ds Date: Jun 08 2005 01:06:32 PM Author: dan see bus 174 to see the similar plight of street kids in brasil. very powerful. Subject: uh Date: Jun 07 2005 12:25:02 PM Author: lbc Nairobi is a city in Kenya, not a country. I hope you didn't take too long to come up with that fabrication, limp you. Subject: kibera Date: Jun 07 2005 07:05:11 AM Author: phallus I worked in Kibera, Nairobi for a bit in 1995. One day a pack of these kids swarmed our pickup. There was nothing for it but to throw them off the moving vehicle, the dispatched scattering the followers like fucking bowling pins. There was fuck all else we could do. Subject: school daze Date: Jun 06 2005 02:56:19 PM Author: chris reed hey i used to hang around with them back in high school! Subject: stuck up? Date: Jun 06 2005 11:50:55 AM Author: mary ...lame. sticky situation is much better Subject: How 'bout this one.... Date: Jun 06 2005 02:41:03 AM Author: Zinger These kids are sooooo STUCK UP! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah Subject: all hottiees Date: Jun 05 2005 01:09:48 AM Author: eat the jizzz a sticky situation!!! bwahahahahaha LO fucking L, mad propz, etc Subject: Re:to fag shintriad Date: Jun 04 2005 04:57:50 PM Author: idiot Who the fuck are you to suggest changing the title? "A sticky situation"??? wtf does this look like, highlights for kids magazine. Wake up retard, read the article and not the fucking title. Subject: dismissing a continent Date: Jun 04 2005 02:40:43 AM Author: hmmm africa's a big place craig. Also tribalism is not inherantly a problem until you impose a set of alien national borders which forces tribes with longstanding beefs to suddenly interact and form a collective identity. If by fucked you mean in a state of disarry from an era of colonial explotation and still exporting all its resources feed first world economies, then yeah, the parts of africa that are always in the news are pretty fucked right now. Subject: sniifin paint Date: Jun 04 2005 12:11:14 AM Author: bennie winie you should czech out the documentary about the romaninian orphans who never got adopted by angelina jolie or other do gooder americans. it happens a lot closer to home, safe white canuks Subject: Yo Date: Jun 03 2005 08:13:18 PM Author: Pokey It's a witty way of saying they couldn't find a photo of acctual Kenyan street kids. Subject: newsflash Date: Jun 03 2005 02:05:12 PM Author: lbc Before white people, Africa was just Africa. This subject is too gargantuan to really get anywhere. Especially on the comment board of a pop culture magazine. Nigerian orphans? What's wrong with Kenyan orphans? They don't like grime? Subject: White Guilt Date: Jun 03 2005 01:37:19 PM Author: Craig To say the white man is responsible for the world's problems is to imply that the world is unable to handle their own affairs, that they are somehow inferior. I respect these countries enough to give them the credit for their own destiny. To imply that the white man is a computer virus that infects innocent victims all over the world is to imply that these countries are mindless robots vulnerable to a corrosive glitch. Africa was fucked before the white man came. it was fucked when he was there and it's fucked now that he's gone. It's not the white man's fault. Blame tribalism, droughts and floods. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=33343 7 Subject: Blame Game Date: Jun 03 2005 11:33:42 AM Author: lbc "So, want to dish some blame? Look no further than the white man and America’s brutal foreign policy—just kidding. Kenya is fucked because of Kenya’s incredibly corrupt government." No, it still is white people. Subject: great article Date: Jun 03 2005 09:20:58 AM Author: deneimaiegw fuck. that was a great one. good job u guys. Subject: RE: how? Date: Jun 03 2005 06:14:33 AM Author: kill whitey Ya huff it, goonie. I mean inhale the fumes. It cuts off the oxygen to the brain, and replaces it with all kinds of lovely chemicals. Hard shit, man. Huffing can kill you the first time you try it. BANG! Total fucking shut down. When you're cold and hungry, anything that gets rid of pain starts to sound pretty damned good. Subject: midwest Date: Jun 03 2005 03:10:19 AM Author: n ...midwest and suburbs... Subject: mid-america Date: Jun 03 2005 02:55:00 AM Author: n If it warn't glue, it'd be something else. I guarantee, until poor kids in the midwest start following in their white trash, meth head parents' footsteps and start huffing glue, nobody in this country is going to give a crap. I bet it's soon. The media will go crazy and the third world equilibrium will contine. Subject: how? Date: Jun 03 2005 01:37:27 AM Author: o-ronge this may end up being a stupid question, but, what the fuck kind of glue can be that strong and powerful for one ounze to completley fuck you up... and how do they get the shit in there system so that its that powerful? Subject: Thanks Date: Jun 03 2005 01:25:36 AM Author: Jeff "So, want to dish some blame? Look no further than the white man and America’s brutal foreign policy—just kidding. Kenya is fucked because of Kenya’s incredibly corrupt government." Thank you for writing this. Subject: Thanks D.... Date: Jun 02 2005 05:35:39 PM Author: Bothar but your rants aren't saving lives either. Wanna get some boot water-proofer and work this out? Subject: myotherrandomthought Date: Jun 02 2005 04:20:19 PM Author: d actually you know what...it isnt that bitch in the mercedes' fault..its the fucking governments of the world...all these politicians obsessed and greedy for what???? money everything in this stupid place is based on what you want to have and what you are trying to get and who you can cheat to get it faster..fuck middle america who thinks they are suffering because your kids didnt get a 'good christmas' this year because everything is more expensive these days..i hope your kids grow up to be glue kids..then you can talk about suffering Subject: myrandomthoughts Date: Jun 02 2005 03:58:15 PM Author: d so who cares about a title? anyway...is there any hope for the world or the people here? what is worse these kids that live on the streets by themselves or the kid in the us who is in the best hospital waiting on a transplant? i dont understand this place and why people care so much about ridiculous things like money and cars and shit like that...shouldnt we care about each other and our neighbors? relationships build character and develop the mind not bitches in their mercedes..and how could a mother not care for her child? is it these mothers fault they dont know any better? or should the blame be on everyone else in the world living their little content fucking lives and pretending that things like this dont exist and if they happen to have a piece on the nightly news after dinner they feel like they have contributed help by saying 'that is so sad..my heart goes out to them and ill be sure to include them in my prayers' as if that fucking helps anyway Subject: WACK Date: Jun 02 2005 03:26:35 PM Author: B "Great piece, but could you not come up with something better for the headline than "Glue Kids"? How about "Stuck in a Rut" or "A Sticky Situation" or even, "And We Thought Eating Paste Was a Bad Idea!"" ^ NO DOUBT Subject: AAAAA!! Date: Jun 02 2005 02:23:12 PM Author: Derek I WOULD PAY A JILLION DOLLARS TO NOT HAVE GHETTO SCUM FECES WIPED ON ME! Subject: same same Date: Jun 02 2005 03:53:08 AM Author: doesntmatter Fuckin see this shit here all the time... I am in Cambodia right now and believe me, as a white tourist its a pretty save country to travell... but be aware of these kids! They live like rats in Phnom Pehn (capital of Cambodia) and you can see them dying on the streets almost every day... I talked to some mothers were I know that there kids are on glue and the dont fuckin care... They behave like the "older boys" in Kenyia... the rip off their own kids... sad but true... these kids have no future and they dont know what they are doin... greetin from Cambodia great article... Subject: damn Date: Jun 01 2005 08:12:55 PM Author: shintriad Great piece, but could you not come up with something better for the headline than "Glue Kids"? How about "Stuck in a Rut" or "A Sticky Situation" or even, "And We Thought Eating Paste Was a Bad Idea!" Subject: thats some shit Date: May 31 2005 07:33:27 PM Author: j money man, this is almost as depressing as the mental illness issue... but with way less legit drugs.