Name: Christine Masese Achieng Claim: Staying Alive…….young breadwinners Place: Nairobi, Kenya For the past few months, I have been helping my mother collect water and sediment samples from the heavily polluted Nairobi River for her Maste of Chemistry Resaerch. I noticed losts of plastic containers and bags thrown around the shores of the river and [...]
Name: Beatrice Koech | E-mail: bnymbare@yahoo.com Project Name: Kambi ya Moto Description: Urban informal sector housing Kambi Ya Moto group. Kambi ya Moto is a small group of residents in the informal sector area of Huruma in Nairobi. About five years ago, the residents who were living in shanties without basic facilities such as flashable [...]
Name: Beatrice Koech | E-mail: bnymbare@yahoo.com Gitathuro Group Gitathuro is a urban informal sector housing group started about 3 years ago. Also stared supported by Pamoja trust. The group is based in Huruma next to Mathare slums. The group started after Kambi ya Moto and they depend on Kambi ya moto for guidance, technology and [...]
Name:Biogas production Claim: This is a project by Practical action,where they make use of banana waste and transform it to biogas to produce energy for grain mills for example. Place: Murang’a district,Central province,Kenya. Picture: add one or more pictures collected on the Internet, from a newspaper article or directly taken at the case site
Names: Davies Mulyango,Marcos Ong’ayi,Daniel Kones,Judith Nyambura | E-mails: daus…@yahoo.com, marc…@yahoo.com, taur…@yahoo.com, dany…@yahoo.com Claim: Improving the lives of women slum dwellers through washing clothes for the students of the University of Nairobi for a fee. Place: Nairobi,Kenya Picture: add one or more pictures collected on the Internet, from a newspaper article or directly taken at the [...]
Name: Alex Kandie | E-mail: alex…@gmail.com Nairobi, Kenya. Context: There are many things in our Kenyan society that are problems in our societies and in our communities. Some of these problems include: poor waste disposal and management techniques, cutting down of trees, global warming, violence, tribalism, lack of co-operation and cohesion between various groups in [...]
Name: Lorraine Amollo, Maseno University. Email: amol…@yahoo.com Summary: Local enterprise who enable local young people to craft making using recycled/waste materials like bones and seeds, thus keeping them off the streets and drugs. This solution generates income for themselves and thus improve their livelihoods and that of their families
Name: Millicent Otina | E-mail: nyan…@yahoo.com Title of initiative: Briquette making from ash and mud Place: Manyatta, Kisumu. Manyatta is an informal urban settlement within Kisumu City on the shores of Lake Victoria. Manyatta is the second largest informal settlement in Kisumu, it has the largest number of dumpsites within Kisumu. Group is called: Muungano [...]
Name: Millicent Otina | E-mail: nyan…@yahoo.com Project Name: Boda Boda transport in Kisumu City Urban transport system: Boda Boda is the main form of transport within Kisumu City. Due to widespread poverty, the use of motor vehicles is generally limited. Most persons in Kisumu walk up to 10 kilometers or more sometimes are carrying up [...]
KAWINZI RUTH MALINDA ONGATA RONGAI WOMEN’S WORKS OF FAITH This group is composed of elderlies fondly called “CUCU NA GUKA” ( grand parents ). They take care of their ophaned grand children whose parents died of aids related complications. Due to the lack of materials and financial contranits they hae deviced ways of making “Kiondos” [...]