Nairobi: Kibura is a huge slum. The degree that a slum can be said to have “boosters,” Kibura had them. This was reputedly the worst of the worst and as I was told frequently with more than a million residents, this was “the largest slum in sub-Saharan” Africa. Low-slung with no dependable access to clean water …
Category: International
Kenyan Walmart Textile Workers
Nairobi: This is a huge city yet it seems small in its own way because there is a feeling of the countryside that seems to prevail everywhere in the red dirt paths and constant movement of people along Ngong Road and the busiest streets and the jumble of Uhuru Park next to the dense but understated …
AUPA!
Arequipa, Peru: As we made our way through sundry meetings in Arequipa, we kept hearing that in addition to the unions the other key ingredient that was vital to any successful equation in creating change in the city was AUPA. What we heard was tantalizing. Somehow AUPA was an organization stitched together across the pueblos jovenos …