The community, under the Arabuko Sokoke Forest Adjacent Dwellers Association (Asfada), comprising 152,000 members from 52 villages, manages the project in collaboration with the Kenya Forest Service and Kenya Wildlife Service.
The beneficiaries or users of these forests are quite varied and include the forest dwellers, forest adjacent households, commercial producers and users of forest products, nature lovers and ecotourists.
Therefore, the traditional dwellers look at the adjacent public space as an extension of their private spaces.
Through questionnaires and interviews we also examined perceived level of concern for environmental threats of informal settlement dwellers and residents of an adjacent moderate SES neighbourhood who share the same geographic space, but have very different living conditions.
They are mentioning mini-Holland funding in their sales pitches to the sort of people who might be in the market for a three-bedroom terrace in Leyton for nearly half a million or a two-bed adjacent to (ahem) "Blackhorse Village" for £375,000: cafe-dwellers, loft-converters, gentrifiers; the sort of people who ride bicycles.
"The only thing to do with this place now is to bulldoze it," said a man from the adjacent Phola Park squatter camp, whose residents battled Zulu hostel-dwellers before their evacuation by the police.
Soon, other island dwellers contributed their own artifacts, and now several rooms adjacent to the restaurant display antique fishing and herding implements, peasant clothing and photographs that recount the story of Ponza's dual nature.
But high winds caused the fire to destroy adjacent businesses and jump across the street, leaving more than 60 apartment dwellers homeless.
You are exploiting the slum dweller".
