There are many slums in Kenya, for example in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa. According to UN DESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs), 55 per cent of Kenya's urban population were slum inhabitants in 2007. [1] . In 2019, around two million inhabitants of Nairobi lived in informal settlements. [2]

Kibera, as one of the most pronounced slums within Kenya, is undergoing an intensive slum upgrading process. The government, UN-HABITAT and a contingent of NGOs, notably Maji na Ufanisi, are making inroads into the settlements in an …

2023年1月11日 · It provides clean water, fights sexual assault, runs a credit union, coaches people on starting small businesses, runs libraries and internet hot spots, mobilizes voters to press politicians to ...

Kibera is the largest slum in Kenya. It is also one of the largest urban slums on the African continent. Kibera is located in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, overlaying about 2.5 square kilometres. It is extensively recognized as one of the maximum densely populated regions in …

2022年8月13日 · Kibera is an informal settlement, or slum, in Nairobi, Kenya — the largest slum on the African continent. Rampant poverty in the Kibera slum is the source of numerous grievances and foundational inadequacies.

It is one of the largest slums in Nairobi. It stretches along the Nairobi–Ngong River, situated on waste lands in the industrial area of the city between the Outering Ring Road, North Airport Road and Mombasa Road. Mukuru is among other major …

Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, and one of the largest in Africa. The population is believed to be over one million people, with a majority coming from either the neighboring developing countries of Somalia, Uganda, and South Sudan or one of the many Kenyan tribes such as the Kikuyu (Kenya’s majority tribe), Luo, or Luyha tribes.

There are approximatly 2.5 million slum dwellers in about 200 settlements in Nairobi representing 60% of the Nairobi population and occupying just 6% of the land. Kibera houses about 250,000 of these people. Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa and one of the biggest in the world.

The existence of slums in Kenya is one of the major causes of environmental pollution and degradation in its cities and towns. The lack of basic infrastructure/services such as drainage, toilets, garbage collection and sewerage means that the waste produced in the slum often finds its ways into the streets and rivers.

Nationwide, 15% of Kenya’s 53 million people use unimproved water sources, such as rivers and shallow wells, and 41% do not have basic sanitation solutions, according to the charity Water.org. The percentages are higher in rural areas and urban slums, where water infrastructure isn’t …