In the Nubian language, kibera means forest, but there are no trees left.The country boy stands at an intersection and looks left and right and left again.
The largest of Nairobi's informal settlements is Kibera, just three miles from the city centre.
City officials reached out to the group after seeing the success they'd had with the biocentres in Kibera.
Transporting heavy building materials across dirt streets riven with gullies and piled high with detritus is not easy, and theft of building materials is commonplace in Kibera.
The Stara biocentre in Kibera is run by women who also manage an orphan school.
Related: How to grow food in a slum: lessons from the sack farmers of Kibera My experience as minister of agriculture in Rwanda and my recent travels across Africa have made it abundantly clear that if we link development assistance with market opportunities – if we combine the spirit of the European Development Days with that of the World Economic Forum – we can accomplish great things.
In the aftermath of a disputed election in 2007, Kibera, whose districts are unofficially divided along tribal lines, was affected as bloodily as anywhere.
Mr Kenyatta, one of Kenya's richest oligarchs, who next month will complete his first year in office, is reportedly fond of similar ritzy watering-holes.Barely a mile away from the Capital Club, the acrid fumes of charcoal fires in Kibera, a notorious slum, mingle with the stench of sewage running down the muddy alleys where perhaps 800,000 Nairobians live in hugger-mugger squalor.
Armed police have a station at the entrance to Kibera, but generally keep out of the slum.
They offer protection at night which is the most dangerous time in Kibera Kibera shacks at nightimeMEN in patched overalls and women in freshly washed blouses walk down a narrow lane just after six in the morning.
Government is absent so local residents supply most goods and services There is no free education and children often have to work to help pay for school fees A stall selling tea and milk generates income of around $25 a day A second hand book stall selling English language books Barbers shops do good business in Kibera A large mosque looms over one part of Kibera.
