Kibera Slum of Nairobi Kenya

The largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya is called Kibera and has over 800,000 inhabitants. The roads or pathways are littered with animal waste, garbage and human waste. Although most of the children do not wear shoes the roads often have jagged rocks.

Kibera Slum of Nairobi Kenya

Kibera Slum of Nairobi Kenya

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Kibera Slum of Nairobi Kenya

Kibera Slum of Nairobi Kenya

Many travelers come to visit Kibera and "Slum Tourism" is getting popular. Viewers of this humanitarian disaster have been more than boisterous, yet still no major improvements to the area have been done despite the beloved topic in the media. Humanitarian band-aids are helpful, but not enough.

Recently the rents were raised there and many poor population can barely afford to eat. It had became a political hot topic prominent to severe violence, fires, protests and riots. Most feared for their lives. If the riots and protests do not kill them then de facto Hiv/Aids or the raw sewage will.

The filth and sewage runoff from the Kibera slums flows straight through ditches and runs into the already extremely polluted Nairobi River, which is used downstream for population washing their clothes. Still even worse most of the landlords of the slum (60%) are government officers or politicians, corruption is someone else huge issue agreeing to the Un Human hamlet Programme (Un Habitat) Study.

Kibera means "forest" but it seems the city officials of Nairobi are having a hard time finding the forest for the slum. Not long ago, The Kibera Urban Environment and Sanitation scholar Plan was introduced even so the problems run much deeper than the proposed measures and it appears to have been more political window dressing.

The Kibera Slum, golf course adjacent, is not the only shanty town in Nairobi, just the largest. One other shanty town in Nairobi, "Korogocho" got road Lighting after a huge vocal firestorm to preclude civil unrest, so much more is needed. The germ-free situation in Nairobi's shanty-towns and slums causing serious health issues including, Skin Disease, typhoid and even worms.

Due to the altitude of the City of Nairobi and climatic characteristic Malaria is not as bad as other parts of the Nation, but climate change promises to change all that. Volunteer health clinic workers say that over 50% of the problems they see are hygiene related.

One huge problem has been that poor folks with no jobs cannot afford to pay for some of the open pit latrines and instead hold it until night time and defecate into a plastic bag and throw it into the road or on a neighbor's roof. They call these "Flying Toilets" and unfortunately nearly all the roofs leak or are in a state of disrepair.

Something needs to be done soon. I de facto hope this record is of interest and that is has propelled thought. The goal is simple; to help you in your quest to be the best in 2007. I thank you for reading my many articles on diverse subjects, which interest you.

Kibera Slum of Nairobi Kenya

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