2. Lesson aims:
To recognise the social, economic and environmental characteristics of the biggest slum in Africa – Kibera
To describe the challenges faced by people living in Kibera
To explain how the slum of Kibera could provide opportunities for the people living there

3. Where would you expect to see a slum area?
India, Brazil, Africa, - in most countries
Where would you expect to see a slum area?

4. Where is Kibera?

5. What is a slum? Write down your definition of a slum
A slum is a highly populated residential area with closely packed decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons. Most lack sanitation, clean water, electricity and other basic services.
It is currently estimated that over 1 billion people live in a slum, with this estimated to continue to grow to 2 billion by 2030 and 3 billion by if current trends persist
Most slums are located in or around urban centres.
Slums are usually illegal settlements built on the outskirts of a city or on places such as rubbish dumps, the side of a river, or on slopes. Houses are made of collected materials or rubbish and put together with these
2 min clip of showing Kibera slum

6. Kibera Slum outside of Nairobi
Use Barleston visit video

7. What do you think it would be like to live here
Kibera slum: What words could you use to describe what you see here?
What do you think it would be like to live here

8. A typical home in Kibera

9. Toilets in Kibera: Discuss the issues these images portray

10. Streams are polluted – pigs roam in this stream
Streams are polluted – pigs roam in this stream. It is full of plastic, black sewage and bottles. Discuss the implications of this. Feedback

11. Kibera

12. Images that reflect Kibera

13.
4 mins

14. What are the challenges that people in Kibera face?
Spread of diseases
Malnutrition
Lack of fresh water to each dwelling
Lack of sanitation
Low income – poor nutrition
Waste products found in alleyways between dwellings and by the side of roads – causes diseases
People cook using charcoal braziers or wood fire – potential fire hazard
Education and health care have to be paid for – many parents don’t have the income – many earn about $1 a day and they have to pay for their water/rent/food
High mortality rate
Children play amongst rubbish/sewage
People have no legal right to the land. The Government has bulldozed houses near Kibera to push a road through it.

15. Produce a table with the 3 headings below – then list the characteristics of Kibera slum under these headings
Social Economic Environmental

16. Environmental
Poor sanitation
Lack of clean water
No drainage – floods when it rains
sewage
Limited electricity
Close proximity
High average temperature
Unsafe buildings
Economic
Small businesses
Less employment opportunities
Limited wages
Everything has to be paid for – education, medical, water, housing, toilets
tourism
Social large families sense of community - solidarity over crowding stigma cook outside – lots of interaction with neighbours close living – leads to diseases social exclusion discrimination

17. Government bulldoze houses to make way for a road
Government bulldoze houses to make way for a road. This has pushed more people into the overcrowded slum area.

18. City of Nairobi

20. Kibera Nairobi Compare the two.
In your books make a list of the similarities (if any) and the differences you have observed.
If you lived in Kibera – what would you write to the Government in Nairobi about your living conditions. Write your letter.

21. Extension: What opportunities could living in the slum in Kibera provide for the people there
Water plant
Water carriers
Small businesses

22. Water Project

23. If time: Look at schools, the work of Feed the Hungry and what they do to help

24. Kibera Schools

25. One of the classrooms

26. Schools in Kibera

27. Classrooms

28. Feeding the children at Soweto

29. Cook House

30. Girls Lodgings

31. What needs to be done?
Provide food and give people the tools to develop their own food chains
Education
Nearly 750 million girls and women alive today around the world were married before the age of 18. Rates of child marriage have declined in wealthier populations, but high levels of child marriage persist amongst the world’s poorest populations.
While billions enjoy an affluent style, more than a tenth of the world’s population live in extreme poverty today. Those people are almost always at greatest risk from environmental damage, climate change and competition for resources. The effects of unsustainable population hit the poorest first, and hardest.
Water and sanitation
Environmental damage can have wider impacts. For instance, in places where there is no water supply and no refuse collection, people are obliged to use and discard plastic packaging or bottles, sometimes in waterways, contributing to plastic pollution in the oceans
Jobs
Fair Trade
Health care
Sustainability
Sustainable farming
Enterprise working

32. What Feed the Hungry do? Sustainable Farming

33. What we do... Food Packing Events. And clothes Packing

34. We provide feeding bowls and sporks in refugee camps and schools across the world with the food we send the children
A Refugee camp in Uganda, these children have fled South Sudan due to war, many are orphaned and have made the long journey into a new country alone

35. Kibera Needs Basic needs Educational needs we are helping to meet Food
Clean drinking water
Sanitation
Health Care
Employment
Educational needs we are helping to meet
New kitchen area to cook meals
Sewing machines to make uniforms and therefore giving the tools for the women in the Kibera Community to sew
Purchase of Computers
Computer lab equipment – desks and chairs
Science Lab equipment
School Text books for teen girls for exam preparation
More beds to accommodate more girls in the lodgings

36. World Facts on Hunger
5 / 11/ 50 out of 100 people are hungry on a daily basis
185/150/75 million people are living in chronic hunger

37. World Facts on Hunger 11 out of 100 people are hungry on a daily basis
185 million people are living in chronic hunger

38. World Facts on Hunger
10 / 85/ 66 Million children who are primary school age attend school hungry.
23/ 25/ 30 Million of those children live in Africa

39. World Facts on Hunger
66 Million children who are primary school age attend school hungry.
23 Million of those children live in Africa

40. World Facts on Hunger
128 / 156 /217 / million children are not growing physically because they do not have enough food to eat.

41. World Facts on Hunger
156 million children are not growing physically because they do not have enough food to eat.

42. World Facts on Hunger 11 out of 100 people are hungry on a daily basis
66 Million children who are primary school age attend school hungry.
23 Million of those children live in Africa
156 million children are not growing physically because they do not have enough food to eat.

43. What are the causes of this level of hunger?
Talk about war, greed, power, dictatorship, world disasters

44. General Information on Malnutrition
Two billion people in the world suffer from various forms of malnutrition.
Malnutrition is an underlying cause of death of 2.6 million children each year – a third of child deaths globally.
1 in 4 of the world's children are stunted; in developing countries this is as high as one in three.
Undernutrition accounts for 11 per cent of the global burden of disease and is considered the number one risk to health worldwide