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Kibera: Converting a Slum of Despair into a Community of Hope through ASH Schemes
1st March 2015
When you don't own the land on which your self-built house is built there's always the threat that you will come home one day to find a bulldozer has trashed your neighbourhood. You have no legal rights; it's a constant worry; it's a disincentive to try to improve your community.
But the residents of Kibera – one of the largest slums in Africa (situated in Nairobi, Kenya) – can start to believe that things will get better as the government invests in ASH schemes. Aided Self-Help programmes are designed to improve basic amenities in neighbourhoods and involve the residents in their own community's future.
Andy Day
Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.