Question

How can slums be tackled?

Answer 1

How to solve a slum ?


✪KIBERA, Kenya–Mildred Lunani knew that if she stayed in her village in Western Kenya she could pretty much count on a life of poverty.

✪So, like the 200,000 people around the world who move to cities from rural areas every day, she came to the capitol in search of opportunity.

✪She found that opportunity in Kibera, the slum that her and her family now call home.

✪She opened up The District Commissioner’s Restaurant, a small place named after the police station next door. Equipped with a window for take out food and a few rickety wooden tables, she offers donuts, samosas and sodas to the flood of people passing by on their way in and out of Kibera each day.

✪A woman prepares french fries for her neighbors in a small restaurant in Kibera. As plans drag on to build new housing in the slum, some residents fear that the strong sense of community that defines Kibera will be lost. (Photo by Alex Stonehill)

✪Lunani was also trained as a community health worker by an NGO in Kibera and spends several days a week working to spread awareness about HIV and AIDS.

✪“Kibera is a good place. The community, the people, my neighbors, they mean a lot to me, I love that part of