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ST. SECILIA SCHOOL. KIBERA,KENYA.

Kibera Slum - Factfile ~ The Kibera Slum is an illegal settlement, and as such it is not supported by the Kenyan government. ~ The one-square mile of buildings houses up to one million people.  The population grows by 5% every year. ~ The residents are multi-ethnic. ~ Crime and drug abuse is endemic, and violence is a daily threat. ~ It is heavily polluted due to open sewage routes and common use of ‘flying toilets’. ~ The buildings are built on compost and waste products, so structures frequently collapse in heavy rain. ~ Homes are built from corrugated tin, mud and cardboard.  Each single-room shack houses on average five people. ~ 20% of Kenyans who are HIV positive live in the Kibera Slum. ~ Life expectancy is 46 years. ~ Half of the population of Kibera are under 15 years of age. ~ 100,000 orphaned children live in Kibera, most have lost their parents through AIDS.

The images below are those that greeted the pupils of Acklam Grange School during their first visit to Nairobi, in July 2007. Current estimates are that there are almost one million people living in the Kibera Slum.

You can see pupils from St. Secilia School in the right foreground of this picture.

In February 2008 the Deputy Head Teacher from Acklam Grange School will be visiting St. Secilia School to investigate how the Meserani Project can help with the education of their pupils.