Tag: Kibera

Kibera start-ups 1.0

Thursday was mostly a repeat of Wednesday morning, so there will not be a great deal more to add. We returned to the Blue House — the popular local name for the church in Kibera...

/ October 2, 2014

Down to business… and dancing

We returned to Kibera Wednesday for the first day of the entrepreneurial training class, the part of the trip I’d been most excited about. A local Kenyan businessman and our team leader tag-teamed the morning...

/ October 1, 2014

Learning from the Magoso School and Orphanage

Even many Nairobians don’t seem to know how to talk about Kibera. Some told me there are 500,000 people in the slum. Some said three million. Some said it is the biggest slum in sub-Saharan...

/ September 29, 2014