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Life gratefully lived

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AngelAngela Ikobwa Amuremwa was born in 1956 at Eregi Location in Kakamega District, the last born in a family of five. She was the daughter of the late Pius Amuremwa and Magdaline Mwanje.

From 1962 to 1968  Angela attended Isulu Primary School where she obtained a CPE (certificate of Primary Education). In 1969 she joined Kegoye secondary school where she completed her “O Level” in 1972. In 1985 she attended an early childhood development course at Montesory Teachers Training College (Lavington), where she attained a diploma in teaching. From there she taught in different schools.  In 1985 she was employed by Kariobangi Parish as a nursery teacher in the school of St. John in Korogocho, which was about the starting point of her journey of education in the Slum. Through her long service of teaching in Korogocho, Angela has seen many pupils growing and becoming students in universities and fathers of good families. It was just this long experience that advised her to do further studies to become a social worker. In fact, while she was at St. John’s Primary school she attended a guiding and counseling course at Amani Counseling Training Institute Nairobi from July 2007 to December 2007. She participated in the capacity building of partners on child protection in the ANPPCAN  KENYA CHAPTER in Nairobi between March and December 2008.

Angela got married to Albert Asingo and they were blessed with 6 (six) children. Edward, Anthony, Catherine, Chrispinus, Consolata and Godfrey.

She had five grandchildren, namely:- Frank, Lennox, Michael, Alicia  and Jean.

Angela worked with Kariobangi Church (Nairobi) for 17 years. She was a committed member of the church and feared God.

Angela complained of chest aches and was frequently taken for check-ups at St. Mary’s hospital Langata. On 7th February 2010, she became worse and was rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital and passed on while being while being attended to by doctors and medical staff.

The following are the last days of Angela according to colleagues and friends of Angela in st. John’s school.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 March 2010 14:40 ) Read more...
 

KENYA: Tackling the crisis of urban poverty

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NAIROBI, 19 January 2010 (IRIN) -

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pic_03_kiberaFridah Awour Agolla has sold vegetables in Nairobi's Mathare slum for 20 years. In better times, her stock sold out every day. But lately market forces have begun to bite even harder for the millions in Kenya who live in such squalid, neglected settlements.

"My customers are buying less and less; now I find that goods like vegetables do not sell out, they go into the next day. People's ability to buy these goods has really dropped,” Agolla, a mother of five, told IRIN.

Agolla managed to put her children through primary school but never earned enough to pay for secondary education.

"If I could afford to join a savings club [where members’ regular contributions are distributed on a rotational basis], I’d buy a variety of food to improve my stock and I would probably be selling more, and perhaps some of my children could go back to school," she said.

Pamela Anyango Odhiambo, 25, and a mother of five, says making ends meet gets harder and harder in Mathare.

"I think food prices have more than doubled within a short time; for example, with 300 shillings [US$4] I could feed my family for days. Now it is not even enough for one day," said Odhiambo, nursing two-month-old twins.

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STRANGE LITTLE DREAMS

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Copertina piccoli sogni strani14 January 2010

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Listen to the song "Korogocho"

by Fabrizio Alessandrini

Korogocho is not only a medley of huts, and this site is not just a collection of information, news and images. We are not only limited and limiting physicalness,

Korogocho is a dream, not because it’s a dream to live there, but, quite the opposite, it’s a dream because the people living there, the ground itself where the slum is situated, contain the dream of what is becoming but is not yet reality. This site is a dream that wants to be a symbol and  a reference point for every person - in many slums of the Southern world, but also here in our world, where an apparent welfare is often marked with unjust  wounds  like the tragic Rosarno facts – for every person, I said, who is believing  in feasible ideas, projects, experiences able to restore human dignity to all those lives that have been damaged, humiliated, outraged, abused, enslaved.

We are a dream because we feel that we can be capable of hope, a hope which is the implementation of resistance, holding out a little more, persevering,  committing ourselves. We are a dream just because we dream to give people the possibility of a future, maybe a future  different from the one promoted and made marketable today: a future without the avoidable troubles and sorrow that a man causes to another man. We feel we are sentiments of a change for another possible world, and we know that sentiments can exist only if they come from relationship between human people.

Last Updated ( Monday, 25 January 2010 03:42 ) Read more...
 

A PASSION FOR MUSIC

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By Daniel Onyango

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BW DanielMy name is Daniel Onyango 23years and the third born in a family of eight. My passion in music began at an early age of 13, a period when my dad use to let us listen to great African musicians comprising of Papa Wemba, Daudi Kabaka, Fela Kuti and the late Franco.

I couldn’t figure out what the content of the music that I listened to was especially from Franco, but the composition, arrangement and the orientation of the songs made me fall in love with music. Attending music concerts and watching different artist performing live music and how they organized themselves, inspired me very much to love music.

I could listen to different songs more often and try to imitate what the singer was saying, the more the practice the easier it was for me. Something new was born in me and from that point music became part of me. I realized that I had a great voice and great potential in music, I would wake up in the morning and do lots of practice and then go to the streets where we use to meet with friends and I would entertain them all day long.

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SLUM UPGARDING LATEST DEVELOPMENT

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By Daniel Onyango

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DanielIt is a new year, new beginning for the residents of Korogocho slum. Finally, Korogocho slum has been transformed into a safer and a better place for thousands of residents. Even though the pace of transformation is very slow, residents here have something to be proud of as constructors and engineers continue to put things in order.

As I walk on the streets of Korogocho each day I feel very much at home and sense of belonging in my community, with children playing around and other people busy with their daily chores in life.

The construction of new roads and other social infrastructure continue to change lives of so many people here in Korogocho, thanks to the development that continues to provide source of income to a number of young people. Already a number of the youth have found something positive to do and are providing easy transport using motorcycle where they earn their income.

Last Updated ( Monday, 04 January 2010 20:16 ) Read more...
 

KENYA: Waste site under the spotlight

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KENYA: Waste site under the spotlight

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NAIROBI, 18 December 2009 (IRIN)

dandora_Caterina_PinoEight years after Dandora, the site of Nairobi's only rubbish dump, was declared full and a health hazard, tons of fuming waste from more than four million city dwellers continue to be added daily, exposing local residents to illness but also profiting a few.

More than 100,000 people live around the dumpsite, a 13-hectare grey zone in the eastern Korogocho slum area of Nairobi, where children grow up deprived of basic services such as water and electricity and play on smelly waste ground, around rotting food, broken bottles, medical waste and much more.

"Because of the toxic fumes, every day people come to the Catholic Dispensary with chest pain and breathing problems," said Father Paolo Latorre, from the Comboni missionary in Korogocho.

A 2007 UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) report highlighted the prevalence of respiratory and gastro-intestinal problems, skin infections and different kinds of cancer among residents living close to the dumpsite. UNEP called for immediate action in either regulating waste collection or relocating the dump.

"Little progress has been made on the recommendations and people keep on getting sick," Comboni's Father John Webootsa told IRIN.

However, Michael Njoroge, 26, who works at the dumpsite collecting paper and steel to sell, did not want the dumpsite relocated, despite experiencing chest pain and breathing problems for the past three years.

"This is my only source of income," he told IRIN. "If the dumpsite moves, I will follow it."

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