Kibera- Shanty Town

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  • Kibera
    • Squatter Settlement in Kenya
      • Population of 1.2 milion
      • 2.5^2 km
      • Around 100,000 children are orphans
      • 75% of population is U18's
        • Population of 1.2 milion
    • Problems
      • Housing
        • Built of mud, wood sheets, rubbish, corrugated iron
          • Unstable, not good shelter
        • Small rooms with large familes
      • Lack of sexual health education and contraception
        • Small rooms with large familes
      • Health Care
        • 54% are HIV+ or have AIDS
          • Lack of sexual health education and contraception
          • Limited healthcare facilites, often very far away
      • Improvement Strategies and Projects
        • Practical Action
          • Improving home by developing low cost roofing tiles
          • Making homes more secure and sustainable
        • UN Human Settlement Programme
          • Affordable electricity and 2 main water pipes
          • Helping to improve sanitation and slow spread of diseases
            • Affordable electricity and 2 main water pipes
        • 'Peepoople'
          • A charity that sells bags at a cheap price with biodegradable chemicals in
          • Bags on in the toilet and turns waste into fertilsers
          • People get money back when they drop the bags off
          • Fertilisers improve farmland, improves sanitation, provides jobs
        • 15 year project to re-home residents of Kibera
          • Re homed 770 families n new flats with running water and electricity.
          • Reducing the population of Kibera.
            • Reducing crime rates and increasing employment

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