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  2. Kibera - Wikipedia

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    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. [3] [4] [5] The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census reports Kibera's population as 170,070, contrary to previous estimates ...

  3. Kibra Constituency - Wikipedia

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    Peter Orero. Created from. Dagoretti & Lang'ata. Kibra Constituency is an electoral constituency in Nairobi, one of 17 constituencies in the county, and has an area of 12.1 km 2. It is located to the southwest of the City of Nairobi, and includes most of the Kibera slum and adjoining estates. The constituency was created prior to the 2013 ...

  4. CFK Africa - Wikipedia

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    CFK Africa. Founded in 2001 by Rye Barcott, Salim Mohamed, and the late Tabitha Atieno Festo, CFK Africa (previously Carolina for Kibera) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) based in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya. Registered as an NGO in Kenya and a 501 (c) (3) in the US, CFK Africa is a pioneer of ...

  5. Slum - Wikipedia

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    A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1] Although slums are usually located in urban areas, in some countries ...

  6. Mathare Valley - Wikipedia

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    A view of the Mathare Valley slum. Mathare Valley is a part of Mathare slum in Kenya. It is in the Nairobi area. Other informal settlements in the Nairobi area include Huruma, Kiambiu, Korogocho, Mukuru and Kibera. It has a high population density. It is a few kilometers from the centre of Nairobi. The Mathare River flows in the valley.

  7. Kicoshep - Wikipedia

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    KICOSHEP, the Kibera Integrated Community Self-Help Programme, is an NGO founded by Anne Owiti in a sparse dingy clinic within the shanty settlement of Kibera in 1991. The majority of patients were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS related ailments, revealing the impact and spread of HIV/AIDS within the Kibera community and confirming the recent discovery that Kibera slum records the highest HIV/AIDS ...

  8. Squatting in Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Map of slums in Nairobi, including Kibera and Mathare. During the colonial occupation of Kenya, Black Africans working on farms owned by white settlers were called "squatters" by the British. As of 1945, there were over 200,000 such squatters in the Highlands and more than half were Kikuyu.

  9. Nairobi Dam - Wikipedia

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    Background. The Dam constructed in 1953 [2] holds back a reservoir with storage capacity of 98,000 m 3 (79 acre⋅ft) and surface area of 350,000 m 2 (86 acres). It is a shallow lake with an average depth on only 2.76 m (9.1 ft) [1] Inflow is from the Motoine River, from rainfall, and waste water from the un sewered Kibera settlement. [1]

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