Glue Boys

“In Kitale, Kenya, among countless other towns in the developing world, many street children have found an escape from their emotional and physical pains by becoming accidental consumers. Orphaned, barefoot, and malnourished, they habitually spend the scarce money they earn from odd jobs and charity not on food or water, but on a more immediate fix – glue – incidentally the same solvent-based kind that the wider world uses to cement shoes together. With plastic bottles perched at their mouths, the children breathe in the glue’s neurotoxic fumes until they pass out or fall asleep forever.”
Glue Boys is an amazing documentary film that takes you through the life of street children in Kitale, Kenya. The director Philip Hamer was able to gain access to the streets of Kenya that no westerner had been granted before. A mix of street credit and the work of the lord, gave Philip an all access pass to these children’s hearts. As a member of the film team it was incredible to see the reality in front of us on the streets, transformed into an astonishing motion picture that seems so far from most of our realities today. Click the picture to check out the Glue Boys web site and purchase a copy of this feature length documentary for yourself.