The other slums include Mathare, which has an estimated population of about 500,000 people and is one of Nairobi's oldest slums; Mukuru, home to 100,000 people; and Bangladesh, located in the port city of Mombasa and home to an estimated 2,000 people.
Israeli startup Keepod and LiveInSlums, an NGO, have united to launch an important project, Keepod Unite, that seeks to bring personal computers to the slums of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
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Walking through slums like Mathare that cram 500,000 people into two square kilometers, the sex industry is invisible to an outsider.
Using a pre-tested questionnaire, data were collected from five hundred and fifty respondents on their internet access and digital literacy skills among the residents of the Mathare Slum.
Gangs in Nairobi's notorious Mathare slum are attempting to reform as they struggle to survive in an environment that offers limited opportunities for young men.
Koome Mwiti, a 30-year-old content producer, says the team field-tested the December storyline with youths in Nairobi's Mathare slum.
From the survey, the study found existence of limited digital literacy skills and lack of internet access among the residents of the Mathare Slum.
The spurt of violence in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, where Mr. Mwangi lives, was a miniversion of the ethnically driven violence that convulsed Kenya in 2007 and early 2008.
