Kibera School for Girls

Peace is a cowboy

Ok, so correction. We went to an NGO called AMREF yesterday. TODAY we went to the Kibera School for Girls.

This is Kibera

Kibera is the largest slum in Africa. It is basically what you imagine when you think of a slum. If you've seen Slumdog Millionaire, it looks a bit like that, only with Kenyans. And no one wins a game show or dances bollywood in the end. 

Basically every house is made of tin or dirt. The streets are lined with families making food and sleeping dogs. And there are chickens everywhere. 

Chickens

The school was amazing. It was co-founded by a former SIT student. All the girls sang us their school song when we got there. And they were all adorable. The oldest girls there right now are about 7 or 8. The school is planning to expand as the students get old, eventually reaching their 500 student capacity.

This was easily the best lecture we've heard so far. On the way back, I saw a little boy with a camera. it looked old and probably didn't work, but he was pretending to take our picture anyway. So when I tried to get his picture...

...this happened.

They all wanted their picture taken. Watoto wa Kibera.