UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 27 December 2012
The odour of human waste is unbearable at the pit latrine behind Nancy Anyango's house in Manyatta, a sprawling slum in the western city of Kisumu. Nearby, a heap of rotting ... read more »
A familiar Congolese tune blares out onto the street. The source a shack made out of iron sheets painted blue; the owner selling music CDs. Similar structures populate both sides ... read more »
"Take a left off Mombasa Road onto Enterprise, drive for about 300 metres until the Kobil. Turn right, first left then head for the brick godown." read more »
A few years ago, walking in the sprawling informal settlement in Nairobi was a delicate balance between dodging flying toilets and circumventing murky mountains of garbage strewn ... read more »
MORE than 60 per cent of Kisumu city residents live in extreme poverty, a Millennium Cities Initiative report says. A survey conducted randomly in selected household shows that ... read more »
The president recently launched another phase of the Kibera slum upgrading project which entails the construction of 900 housing units, 230 business stalls, a nursery school, a ... read more »
With more than 600 million people lacking improved sanitation facilities in Africa, the continent has become a major focus for initiatives aimed at bringing toilets to the masses. Read more »
An estimated 297 million women and girls living in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to safe and adequate sanitation, and of those, 107 million have no access to a toilet at all, ... Read more »
What a wonderful article to bring attention before those in authority in
Nairobi. But what a waist of print! Same old problem that will not be
attended to. How can those in leadership hide behind a constitution which
is FOR THE PEOPLE and yet fail the people? If the current President and the
next one will repent of their sin and work for the people and not just a
tribe, then perhaps God will turn an ear to the cries of a UNITED Kenya.
Her Grace Mrs Margaret Kiyaga, AFIRIKA, WIFE OF GOD.
TRUST ME: It is NOT more toilets or latrines that need to be built. What
is absolutely crucial and immediately URGENT is to destroy THE SLUM
CULTURE!The slum dwellers themselves need a complete overhaul of their
mentality through medical psychological therapy because it is not merely
poverty that causes most of them to ACCEPT LIFE IN SLUMS! In the case of
slums, the awful latrine/toilet situation is merely symptomatic!
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What a wonderful article to bring attention before those in authority in Nairobi. But what a waist of print! Same old problem that will not be attended to. How can those in leadership hide behind a constitution which is FOR THE PEOPLE and yet fail the people? If the current President and the next one will repent of their sin and work for the people and not just a tribe, then perhaps God will turn an ear to the cries of a UNITED Kenya.
TRUST ME: It is NOT more toilets or latrines that need to be built. What is absolutely crucial and immediately URGENT is to destroy THE SLUM CULTURE!The slum dwellers themselves need a complete overhaul of their mentality through medical psychological therapy because it is not merely poverty that causes most of them to ACCEPT LIFE IN SLUMS! In the case of slums, the awful latrine/toilet situation is merely symptomatic!
Mega Katonda Afirika, WIFE OF GOD.