Video: Kibera’s slum dwellers need more than promises

Kenya 2009

By Miriam Pepper

July 27, 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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