Write a short story of about 200 words on "A dark day of my life-how I let my anger ruin a perfect day!"
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“My dream would be to leave the slum, live in the city and be able to have a stable life. We were much happier before living in the slum. I came to Kibera 40 years ago, my daughters and grand-daughters were born here. Kibera is the only place they saw.” Mama Molen
The Kibera slum is located in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It’s a place where poverty meets misery, where proper sanitation doesn’t exist, where safety isn’t ensured, and where dignity has been replaced by survival. In Nairobi, there are approximately 2.5 million slum dwellers in about 200 settlements. This represents 60% of the city’s population occupying just 6% of the land. The Kibera slum is home to 250’000 people and Mama Molen’s family is part of it. Related Article: 99% of NGOs receive only 30% of all donations Fortunately for Mama Molen, she stumbled upon some exceptional human beings in the slums, these people give more than they receive for the well being of the local community. They are all part of the same project called From Kibera With Love. This NGO was created to break this fateful pattern of misery and offer a chance to parents and their kids to have a different perspective in life.
How ?For the 77 kids, coming to the centre means breaking away from the chaos of the slum to enter an environment where their self-development is the priority. Their lives in the slum is often deprived from love and hope, and the people of the project strive not only to complete their scholar education, but also to help them become independent, improve their health and respect themselves. But From Kibera with Love’s work doesn’t stop there, they also engage the parents on a deeper level: The Microcredit Program. Often parents depend on very little amount of resources to financially provide basic needs for their family. Some even have none and are obliged to get into large amounts of debts. The Microcredit Program is a solution to that. The concept of the program is to lend small loans every week to parents that lack decisive funding, in order for them to start their own businesses. Mama Molen, started the program two years ago, she now owns a very popular crisp shop, that has awaken the enthusiasm of many locals around Kibera. The program allowed Mama Molen to be financially sustainable and has provided better needs to her daughters. On top of that she now has a house with electricity when only 20% of Kibera have access to it. However, this is not the end of the story, she’s conscious she’s still living in the biggest slum of Eastern Africa and is hoping for a brighter future. A place where she’ll see her daughters reach university, where she will not be bothered by the access to sanitation and medication, and where she’ll be able to provide food and shelter to her future generation. This women’s strength and desire to succeed in life is an example for all of us. Let us take a little more time to appreciate and value the things that we call “little” in our day to day lives. I am talking about drinking water that is not polluted, eating 3 meals a day, having access to a quality health care system, free education and much more.