clifford oluoch wants to rescue them, or at least make their lives more bearable, for instance, with and games. for most of them that's their only leisure activity. in everyday life, clifford is a high school teacher. he's a member of kenya's growing middle class. once, on his way to work, he saw a street kid trying to buy half an ear of corn because he couldn't afford a whole one. the seller refused. clifford bought it for him. the incident changed his life. clifford oluoch: they need the same, because here they want to excel in education, they want to be better citizens, they want to be doctors and lawyers. but even the fellows i'm working on in the slums, from the streets, it's the same thing. they also have dreams. so at the end of the day, i'm just trying to make sure that both of them do attain their dreams. >> that's not so easy. nelson shipondi is one of the people clifford is supporting. his parents have no money to feed him or send him to school. now a teenager, he's lived on the streets since he was seven, and he's become a drug addict. he sniffs glue, and begs for money t