Kibera Slum in Nairobi Kenya is a Humanitarian Disaster of Epic Proportions
In Nairobi, Kenya the capital city there is a horrific situation, known as the “Kibera” Slum and it is a humanitarian disaster, one of the worst urban slums in the world with some 800,000 people living in 2.8 square miles surrounded by raw human sewage canals.
Something must be done, because the current programs are just band aids to the actual problem and nothing seems to be working. Our Online Think Tank took action and developed a 10-year action plan to clean up the slum there. This plan sent to those who met in Nairobi on the committees, members of the Bush Administration Task Force, World Bank, UN, African Leaders and several non-profit groups.
The local government does not wish to fix the problem they say the slum dwellers are there on the land illegally. Others say who is paying for such a plan, even though the United States sends 1.6 Billion to the Kenyan Government.
Indeed, now there is no excuse as all the decision makers that are interested have a copy of our plan; it definitely made some waves with the Davos Crowd and some of the NGO leaders who met the following month there in Nairobi. The Online Think Tank now has two plans, one for the Nairobi Kenya slums and one for Honduras and we are working on one for Bolivia and several other places around the world.
The bigger problem in Nairobi is why are people flocking to the city and leaving rural agriculture employment and work? There are lots of issues with hardly enough space here in this article to get into the full impact, but you can rest assured there are people working on this problem. There are barriers, politics and corruption which also needs to be cleared out.
L. Winslow is an Economic Advisor to the Online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entreprenuer worldthinktank.net worldthinktank.net . Currently he is planning a bicycle ride across the US to raise money for charity and is sponsored by Calling-Plans.com Calling-Plans.com and all the proceeds will go to various charities who sign up.