Kibera- Shanty Town
- Created by: eve_hooper
- Created on: 14-04-17 09:34
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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
- Built of mud, wood sheets, rubbish, corrugated iron
- 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
- Lack of sexual health education and contraception
- Limited healthcare facilites, often very far away
- 54% are HIV+ or have AIDS
- Housing
- 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
- Practical Action
- Squatter Settlement in Kenya
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