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Daily Mail&Guardian Aids hope from Kenya slums Majengo, a slum area of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is a sprawling maze of narrow alleyways and paths scored by the open flow of untreated sewage. Some 80 000 people live among the detritus of the red-light slum, where a prostitute's home is marked by an empty stool placed outside the door.

News round-up - 55 pc of Nairobi population lives in slums - Out of Nairobi's estimated population of 2 million people, 55 per cent lives in slums, the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref) has revealed. Amref deputy country director, Mr John Nduba, said many Kenyans cannot afford decent houses due to low income and lack of jobs.

Business Mirror - The East & Central African Business Mirror Promoting Regional Trade - Real Estate Sector faces hard times - On the other hand, the demand for smaller houses has gone up, as people move from up-market estates to less expensive flats in the Nairobi suburbs of Kayole, Githurai. Sattelite and others. Landlords in these areas have in response to demand, increased rent in recent years. This has pushed increasing numbers of the low-income group to the slums.

African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref) Headquarters in Nairobi.  AMREF is Africa’s largest indigenous health charity, and for 44 years in partnership with local communities, governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa’s health problems.
AMREF’s mission is to improve health care among disadvantaged communities in sub-Saharan Africa by helping them establish their own self-sustaining health systems. 

Slums Information Development & Resource Centres - Youth Development Networks Mathare Youth Sports Association The Mathare area is one of the largest and poorest slums in Africa. Several hundred thousand people live here. The majority are kids with few chances or playing fields for sports. Our homes are often surrounded by garbage and waste which cause diseases that cripple or kill many of our friends.

Kenya National Library Services - Book Aid International Donations To subsidise the cost of education in areas and communities which have lagged behind in this respect due to lack of learning facilities.  These areas and communities include arid and semi - arid areas of Kenya, slums in urban towns, vocational institutions, and physically handicapped persons, children's home women self-help groups an adult literacy classes.

Population Briefs Volume 6, Issue 3 - Slum Residence and Adverse Health Consequences Linked in Kenya Slum residents in Nairobi, Kenya initiate sex at earlier ages and have more sexual partners than do other city residents, which may increase their risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Qualitative data from a new study also shows that the highly unfavorable economic and social circumstances in which slum residents live influence their sexual behavior considerably.

PeaceLink - Africanews AFRICANEWS, even if it is produced with a computerized system, is placed in the middle of a Nairobi slum and is an integral part of Koinonia Community which manages also a street children project.  Koinonia Community Lusaka, Kivuli street children project There are between sixty and a hundred and twenty thousand street children in Nairobi. The Kivuli centre came into being with these children in mind. With the passing of time, the welcome centre was transformed into a fully-fledged social centre available to all the poor people of the Riruta and Kawangare areas. In fact, besides giving shelter to 60 children and welcoming another 120, the centre made available to the inhabitants of the area a baker's, a small clinic, a well with drinking water and a sports club that supervises 300 small athletes of both sexes engaged in a variety of disciplines.

MAWAC Resources on Pollution Mitigation - Wegelin-Schuringa, M. (1998). Small pit emptying machine an appropriate solution in Nairobi slum. Delft, the Netherlands, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre  Small Pit Emptying Machine an Appropriate Solution in Nairobi Slum by Madeleen Wegelin-Schuringa, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, and Manus Coffey, Manus Coffey Associates (MCA) for UNCHS (Habitat)  Contact: Dr. Graham Alabaster, HSO, Research & Development Division, UNCHS (Habitat), PO Box 30030, Nairobi, Kenya, fax: 2-623588 or 624265/6/7.

Comboni Lay Missionary Program - Kenya - Where We Work Cathy works as Managing Editor of Africa News, a wire service dedicated to sending news of Kenya to other parts of the world.  She also works at a community center that serves the people of Kivoli, a Nairobi slum where she lives.

XIII International AIDS Conference 9-14 July 2000 Until recently, Robert Nyantika, 30, was a strong, straight-backed police officer. Now he is a stooped wraith unable to focus his eyes, bathe himself or walk without help. His elder brother, Omari, when he heard that Robert was deathly ill in a faraway clinic,brought him home, already gravely thin from AIDS-related tuberculosis and diarrhea. Overworked doctors at a public Nairobi hospital were too busy or indifferent to examine Robert for a week, but Omari, a home health worker in a Nairobi slum, realized what was happening: ... The cure is fluconazole ... It is too miraculous for the poor to live without and too profitable for Pfizer to give up.

Sustainable Agriculture Centre for Research and Development in Africa (SACRED)  - Driving Forward in Reverse Gear One dilemma that continues to puzzle development workers in Africa is how to get rural communities to participate in identifying their collective problems, analyzing them, ranking / prioritizing and generally initiating and managing sustainable projects with a high chance of solving these problems both in the short and long term. ... There was much song and dance as the local people drunk their traditional beer, celebrated and enjoyed.  As this was happening, infrastructure in our urban and rural areas was becoming extinct.  Potholes on the roads were increasing, there were growing mountains of garbage, rivers of sewage started flowing continuously, slums were on the increase and so was unemployment.  

Africa Online - Kenya Business and Finance A Modern-Day Gomorrah By Zachary Ochieng Welcome to Kibera, where prostitution and promiscuity, alcoholism and drug addiction, muggings and murders are the order of the day. Criminal activities here are committed in broad daylight, sometimes right under the noses of policemen.  But that is not the case in Kibera, where the carefree attitude of its inhabitants is bound to leave any outsider dumbfounded. Even in the face of HIV/Aids and widespread campaigns to sensitise Kenyans to the dangers of the disease, behaviour change among the slum dwellers is almost non-existent.  (1997)

UNGANA - Africa Online - Ungana Update The Young Friends of AMREF - Ungana - The Young Friends of AMREF is a group of young men and women dedicated to the active promotion of community development in East Africa through voluntary service. Ungana is a Kiswahili word meaning "come together" and Ungana members do exactly that, to assist organisations that work with community development initiatives such as AMREF - the African Medical and Research Foundation and others.  Volunteer Action, 

Legal Resources Foundation - The Young Voice - Outreach sessions were spread in a large geographical cover, from the Kibera slums in Nairobi to the remote parts of Marsabit and the bandit prone Tharaka-Nithi

culture and sports - In 1998 a public art project in the Central Business District of Nairobi, the Daily Billboard, provoked massive reactions from people in Kenya as well as visitors to the projects website. Thousands of people participated by writing their reactions to the themes that were artistically displayed on a huge billboard.

African Centre for Technology Studies - Innovation Magazine Urbanization is another grueling problem. Our towns and cities are growing at an extremely rapid rate—12 or so per cent. With such growth have come serious environmental concerns, like proper sanitation, urban land use, congestion and growth of slums, provision of services like water, sewerage, garbage disposal, etc. How are these problems to be addressed? They must constantly be placed within the public’s eye and debate generated on the options available to deal with them.

Kenyatta University - Enviro pm Descriptions Over the years, increased socio-cultural and economic activities in Kenya have resulted in burgeoning urban settlements characterized by haphazardly planned "estates" and proliferation of slums with their resultant misery of human poverty and environmental degradation. In the rural areas, poor management of land, forest and water resources have resulted in hazardous floods, crop failure and deforestation. In view of these, this programme is designed to equip the students with professional knowledge, skills and techniques necessary for ensuring a balanced and sustainable environment.

African Regional Centre for Computing - HIV-AIDS Within the Family Women's Responses and Needs (1994?)

World In Need International - Project_Africa

welcome to kenya hakuna matata! - nairobi - Majengo Photos

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Christian Mission Aid- CMA, Africa, Kenya, missions, children's ministries, aid and relief, Sudan, outreach. was founded in 1986 as a non-denominational, non-profit organization to work on relief and development projects in Africa. Our main office is located in Nairobi, Kenya. Our projects are focused in Kenya and other East African countries, including Uganda and Sudan. CMA’s primary focus is to help others help themselves.  Through our more than 30 projects in Christian Outreach, Aid and Relief, Children’s Ministries, and Community Development, we seek to live out our theme verse.  Contact  254-2-723-930 in Nairobi.

Crescent Medical Aid Kenya The main object for providing a wide range of preventive and curative services is to facilitate medical treatment specifically to the poor members of our society.  For this reason most of the clinics are located in high density slums areas of Nairobi. Additional services include maternal and child health care services, immunisation of children, treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, counselling of HIV/AID patients and Executive Clinic which provide affordable consultancy services.

Kenya Chamber of Commerce

Kenyaweb Kenya's Definitive Internet Resource  - District Development Committees, Divisional Development Committees (DVDCS)

Friends of Kenya - Marafiki Wa Kenya - Friends of Kenya / Marafiki Wa Kenya (FOK) is a non-profit organization begun at the initiative of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and Staff who served in Kenya. FOK was formed in 1986, following the 25th Anniversary Conference of returned volunteers as a reaffirmation of commitment to those ideals and goals which first drew them to the Peace Corps. Its objectives include keeping members informed about Kenya and each other, supporting human welfare and nature conservation projects in Kenya, and lobbying and education activities. In the past two decades, FOK has contributed more than $50,000 in assistance to some 70 projects in the East African country. National Peace Corps Association  Your dues and contributions have helped build houses, latrines, and school classrooms; supply equipment for laboratories, workshops, and park rangers battling elephant poachers; purchase a water drilling rig; teach agricultural skills, family health and nutrition, and rhino conservation; train Kenyan scientists and researchers; provide start-up monies for small businesses; support conservation field research; assist refugees, street children, and mentally handicapped students.

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