On the eastern side of Nairobi (Kenya’s capital city), lies Mathare Valley slums. The slum, one of the oldest in Africa, is home to over half a million households all confined within a mere square ...

On the eastern side of Nairobi (Kenya’s capital city), lies Mathare Valley slums. The slum, one of the oldest in Africa, is home to over half a million households all confined within a mere square ...

My family and I recently returned from a two-week mission trip to the Mathare Valley just outside of Nairobi, Kenya. I learned many things, but mostly I learned to be thankful for what we have and ...

After our investigative trip to Mathare last spring, our team began to prototype a service design that would improve women’s security and community networks in the Mathare Valley area of Nairobi, ...

Nairobi — Let's talk politics. After all, it is Kenyans' best hobby - they eat, live and dream politics. But I want us to talk about politics of a different nature; of assassinations, murder and ...

Samantha Winter received funding for this project from the National Security Education Program in the United States as a Boren Fellow, PEO International, and the Rutgers Global Health Institute. Women ...

A Hong Kong university used speedy, high-tech construction to rescue kids from crammed classrooms In the deepest point of Mathare Valley, where Nairobi's second-largest slum is located, a sparkling ...

Children look on as Brian Musasia Wanyande, an artist from the Mathare Roots's youth group, paints an advocacy graffiti against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Mathare Valley ...

Inspiration is sometimes found in the unlikeliest of places. Take the case of Sammy Gitau, a onetime petty criminal and drug user who recently earned his master’s degree from the University of ...

(RNS) — Maurice Odhiambo, the pastor of a church in Nairobi, is up before the sun rises in Kenya. He and his team are headed once more into the Mathare Valley, an informal settlement of shanties along ...