Kibera Slum

Kibera Case Study- pic Kibera is a slum divsion in the City of Nairobi, Kenya. It is located 5 kilometres from the city centre. It is the largest slum in Nairobi and the second largest in Africa. A 2009 cosmos and housing accompany reported that Kiberas population as 170,070. It is hard to acccurately compute the population due to the fact that the slum hasnt been officially reconised by the Kenyan government. furthermore because it is a slum, residents may not be able to read or write, so filling in censes are a problem. General Facts- macrocosm 700-900k Distance from Nairobi 7 km Physical size (acres) 630 piece of volume earning 15% Est.AIDS orphans 50,000 Portion of people renting 93% Avg. monthly rent $15USD Avg. styles per dwelling 1. 11 Typical room size 9 x 9 It is a place where the people who live there face innumerable challenges, including the following, to name a few Living in one-room houses made of mud, with tin roofs with about 1m? of space per person . No running water (most water has to be purchased from brokers) Little to no nettle to electricity Widespread unemployment and low wage-earning rates ( $1 a day for the majority) Rampant disease, from malaria to cholera to HIV Lack of ownership of their airscrew Improvements-After a decade or so there has been an affix in efforts to change conditions. The most notable example is KENSUP, or the Kenya slum area Upgrading Project, which is sponsored by UN-HABITAT. Resulting from a 2000 meeting between President Moi and the UN Human Settlements Programme, KENSUP aims to improve physical structures in Kibera and other slums through a process called slum upgrading. The program calls for the temporary relocation of residents of Kibera to adjacent decanting sites, allowing the construction of permanent dwellings to glide by in the Kiberan villages.Work has commenced in the Soweto East village, and as of September 2009, the outgrowth decanting site was under construction. Kiber a needs land/tenancy rights, housing, water, electricity, health clinics, education, employment, security measure plus much more. All these issues are being addressed to a lesser or greater extent by many organizations including the Churches, UN-Habitat, MSF, AMREF and so forth Money is finding its way through from many international organizations including supply Foundation, Bill Clinton Foundation, all the well known charities and of course the churches both in Africa and internationally.