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Video: Kibera’s slum dwellers need more than promises

Gatekeepers Kenya 2009

By Miriam Pepper

July 26, 2009

Child in trash strewn Kibera slum.

Child in trash strewn Kibera slum.

As urbanization grows across Africa, the continent's largest slum in Nairobi remains a humanitarian disgrace. A lack of government services leaves more than one million Kenyans without sanitation or running water. Sporadic government promises of improvements remain unfulfilled.

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  • Jay Samford said:

    This is   bizarre —actually has to be a “God’  thing because this   guy who heads “Feed the Children”  Larry Jones (?)  sent me a small book the other day about Kibera and this   Golfer (Fiction)  rescueing three orphaned children from the Kibera slum.  -I just   finished it   - a short story really.  But   I   did a completely unrelated search for international journalism and   Your site where this article was,  came up first.  -I rarely click the first item because that’s ussually more   commercial but I   clicked it   anyway.  -I’m praying for these people.  Particularly the government there,  and that the wealthier among us would help.    ActuallY Christ needs to get in there too!    Sin is   much of the cause of so much of this desperation and   the disease and heartache…  (and greed   too)    Thank you for doing this story.  You can do a more extended one I hope.  -I guess these themes aren’t so popular…  Not Like “Entertainment Tonight ”  God Bless You.  -Jay S.

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