Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, are some of the worst and most densely populated in the world. But Eric Omwanda, a Mathare ...

When Kennedy Odede was a teenager in Kenya living in the streets of Kibera, one of the world’s biggest slums with tens of thousands of people struggling to survive, he got tired of feeling hopeless ...

I arrived in January to work for Mathare Foundation, a foundation that gives free classes to vulnerable children in Nairobi’s infamous Mathare Slum. Day one was a shock. Nothing in the slum surprised ...

Nairobi — Octagon Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Octagon Africa, yesterday partnered with grassroots community organization Mto Wangu Initiative to support the expansion ...

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The Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, are some of the worst and most densely populated in the world. But Eric Omwanda, a Mathare native, wants to change the status quo. He helped start up the Mathare ...

This is part two of a three-part journal about my month in Kenya volunteering at a children’s foundation in the infamous Mathare Slum. I wrote about my first day in Nairobi here. Day Two (Wednesday): ...