General scenes in and around Kibera, the 2nd largest slum in Africa after Soweto. Kibera, Nairobi.
Sights from around Kibera Kibera at the very heart of Nairobi City is the second largest slum in Africa second only to Soweto in South Africa It is made up of 11 so called villages or districts and is about 1 million strong The slum makes up about a quarter of Nairobi s population and sits uncomfortably next to the Nairobi business sprawl on the edge of the CBD It was the centre of a lot of the violence that inflicted Kenya following the disputed election results in December 2007 when the predominantly Luo population in the slum who are ardent supporters of the then Opposition Orange Democratic Movement ODM were a big source of the mayhem that the elections instigated There are many charities and foundations that work in Kibera On many occassions I travelled into Kibera to follow the work of one such international charity called Carolina for Kibera winner of the Hero of Global Health Award as voted by Time Magazine and the Bill Gates Foundation in 2005 The NGO aims to fight abject poverty and introduce health improvement programmes while also preventing violence and bringing together communities that have been torn apart by the ethnic violence that followed the disputed elections through community based development The focus is mainly two fold There is a Youth Sports Program which aims to promote youth leadership and ethnic and gender co operation in Kibera by bringing young members of the community together through sports mainly football And there is the Tabitha Clinic which is run by Carolina This is again a community based initiative and provides primary healthcare for Kibera residents It has approximately 20 000 patients a year many of these being out patient calls by health care and social workers and focuses especially on those suffering from HIV and AIDS in the large slum
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Location: Kibera, Nairobi. Kenya.
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