Celebrated American singer and dancer Nicole Scherzinger, 37, has
recently opened up about her traumatising experience in Dagoretti slums,
Nairobi, when she visited Kenya in November 2015. PHOTO/BANG SHOWBIZCelebrated American singer and dancer Nicole Scherzinger, 37, has recently opened up about her traumatising experience in Dagoretti slums, Nairobi, when she visited Kenya in November 2015.
Scherzinger,
who parted ways with her longtime boyfriend, renowned formula one
driver Lewis Hamilton in February last year, was in the slum area to
shoot a film as part of charity work with the Unicef.
During
an interview with Daily Mail, Nicole recounted how she met street
children as young as two years old who moved her to tears.
“I
befriended children who sleep on the streets and spend their days in
rubbish dumps, scratching a living by collecting bottles and cans, which
they sell for recycling, and risking disease, violence and exploitation
in the process. These kids have no one in their lives to take care of
them. They start – at the age of two, three, four –to fend for
themselves on the streets,” she said.
The film
that saw the star visit the country is about George, a 12-year-old boy
who spends nights on a cold concrete floor within a marketplace, and
gets up as early as 5am to collect scrap metal and plastic from
dumpsters and garbage piles for selling, making about Sh 40 per day. The
movie will be aired next Sunday on UK ITV channel during Soccer Aid, a
fundraising celebrity football match.
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