Kibera - Wikipedia
WEBA view of Kibera Dwellings in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya c. 2008. Kibera (Kinubi: Forest or Jungle [1]) is a division and neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya, 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) from the city centre. [2] Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the largest urban slum in Africa.
Resilient and strong: Voices of women from Kenya's largest 'slum' - NPR
WEBMar 9, 2024 — We interviewed women in Kibera, the Nairobi neighborhood that locals refer to as the largest "slum" in Kenya, to get a glimpse of their routines, their challenges, their sources of joy and...
Kibera: Inside one of the biggest slums in Kenya - RTF
WEBKibera 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 …
This Kenyan Slum Has Something to Teach the World
WEBJan 11, 2023 — One of SHOFCO’s early projects was Kibera School for Girls, which recruited some of the most impoverished girls in the slum. Their parents were sometimes illiterate, and one-fifth of those little...
Visiting the Kibera slums in Kenya - Against the Compass
WEBJul 25, 2024 — Kibera is an extremely poor suburb of Nairobi composed of over 1 million inhabitants spread across an area of only 2.5 square kilometers. It’s classified as the second largest shanty-town in the world (after Johannesburg’s slums in South Africa), but this is often disputed.
Into Their Own Hands: Kibera, Kenya’s Largest Slum, Tames …
WEBJul 7, 2020 — Kibera forms part of Nairobi County’s population of six million situated in Kenya’s capital approximately seven kilometers southwest of the city center. When Kenya’s first case of coronavirus was confirmed on 13 March at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kibera residents were shocked.
Some facts and stats about Kibera, Kenya | Kibera UK
WEBKibera Facts & Information. 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. Land Ownership.
Kibera: a look inside Africa’s largest slum - Concern Worldwide
WEBNov 26, 2020 — Situated on the outskirts of Nairobi is the largest informal settlement (slum) in Africa: Kibera - a vibrant but densely populated place, where the threat of coronavirus (Covid-19) is developing into something potentially worse than the virus itself.
Lifting Up Stories Of Progress: Hope and Hustle in the Kibera Slum
WEBAug 23, 2019 — Kibera, about four miles outside of Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest urban slum in all of Africa. About the size of New York’s Central Park, it is estimated that somewhere between 700,000 and 1 million people live within Kibera’s tin-roofed, mud-caked structures, and travel its rutted, ravaged byways and narrow dirt roads.
Poverty and Inequality in the Kibera Slum - The Borgen Project
WEBAug 13, 2022 — 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.