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ZanaA was created out of my experience in Kenya for six years, working with street girls, thinking about the world of “development” and what was good and bad about it, looking at the for-profit world and what was good and [...]
The poor and the rich have a big gap between them. The difference of having plenty of food on some peoples’ table and nothing on others makes me sad. The worst part of all is that some of these people [...]
The first time I heard about ZanaA I was taking tea in my room right before my classes back at school very early in the morning, when the C.E.O of ZanaA was being interviewed by Carolyne Mutoko oF Kiss 100, [...]
Life in Kibera is very tiresome. You often find people living in the area going through many hardships. I have been brought up in Kibera and have also had to pass through these in my life. Sometimes I feel guilty when I [...]
Kibera is the biggest slums that we have and it is the most populated. The biggest challenge that the people down here are facing is that they have too few toilets which leads to a phenomenon called flying toilets. I [...]
The little girl stood bare foot, the mabati walled house behind her built so close that their rusty roofs overlapped making them very close to the ground. She looked disturbed in her mind as she faced a twisted open sewer [...]
Its very common everyday in kibera to see paper bags everywhere because there are almost no toilets. This is harmful to the environment and is compounded by the severely overcrowded conditions with no access to clean water. The health centres [...]
January 6, 2009 I am excited at what the immediate future has in store for girls in Kibera and Kawangware, two large informal settlements (aka slums) in Nairobi. Kibera and Kawangware are home to over 2.5 million people – at [...]
Every morning l have a chance to see young people pursing their dreams, the dream of a better life yet their options are not many, nor is their potential to bring significant difference in their lives over time. Fear is [...]
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