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   19 posts --- Location: Nairobi Kenya |
24-01-2012 11:51Are Slum Dwellers Entitled to a Good Living?Dear Members, Some leave their distant village huts and come to the cities to make their fortune. They land up as daily labourers, bringing in less than the bare minimum. Not being able to afford a sleeping berth, let alone a room in the city, they end up in slums,simple houses where basic necessities is merely a dream . Children from extreme poverty-stricken backgrounds, often single-parent, run away from home. They start living a high-risk life on the streets and city footpaths, often doing heavy manual labour for one insufficient meal a day. Old people, abandoned by their family, also land up on the streets, where they create simple structures to bury their heads at night. Having no energy for work, they lie in street corners, huddled up in tattered clothes , with their worldly possessions in a small bundle, and beg. How do the lives of these different people look like? How do they really get by from day to day? What hope, if any, do they have, that motivates them each day to get up and live another day? What are the struggles of life in the slums? How do they cope with the extremes of different seasons? They live on the seamy side of life, certainly, with diseased bodies, sores, malnutrition, stinking, open drains, flies and garbage heaps all around, literally walked over by busy heels all day, expecting harassment from local authorities every now and then. In the the rainy seasons, streams rises and floods, the adjoining slums are submerged in dirty-germ-infested water. There is no end to these problems. But despite All these, is there any element of beauty in their lives also? People in slums coming from marginalized backgrounds themselves, yet not deprived to this extreme, they are both insiders and outsiders in the situation. What follows are their first-hand accounts and perceptions. There is no future for these people.Nobody cares especially in Kenya, I mean the authorities safe to NGOs working with with a lot of compassion.The rights of this people have only been reserved in writing, that is, the constitution, and yet we have the best payed government officials in the world, our president being the third.Rampant corruption, when foo is given to the government by donors and other items, they become the preserve of the rich.They sell everything.Its bitter but what can we do? We are the change we wish to see! "I am because you are and you are because I am".Its a very positive factor in my life that I appreciate you.Welcome we share a clear vision of our destination.Its vital we become master in some things, then transform them into a viable venture isaacwaithaka.blogspot.com |
 41 posts --- Location: Kajiado Kenya |
13-02-2012 12:31 Re: Are Slum Dwellers Entitled to a Good Living? This is called RURAL URBAN MIGRATION and this happens primarily because wealth is concentrated in big Cities. It is popular in African countries because poverty levels are highWorks directly with rural communities for empowerment, livelihood improvement, Peace, Promoting culture and Cultural tourism |
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