The Kibera Youth Project (EN)
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industrial/product design
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improve the human spirit
respond to our growing need for clean water, power, shelter, healthcare, education
Project Description:
Kibera is located in the outskirts of Nairobi and home to about one million poor people. It is the largest slum in Africa and people living there do not have access to electricity. Kerosene lamps are the main source of light, used to light up small one-roomed shacks. The streets are dark and dangerous at night given that there are no streetlights, especially for children. After 6 pm in the evening children have to stay in the house or risk being abused, raped or mugged.
With this initiative we would like to support the children living in Kibera to own solar lamps which they can use to do homework, use as a torch or to light toilets which are always situated outside residential houses. You can sponsor a child or a class with solar portable lamps.
The solar lamps will permit school children to do their homework at night and therefore being better at school.
More than 40% of people living in Kibera work as security officers. They use dry cells batteries of low quality and often need replacement every 2 weeks.
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Project Location: Kibera, Africa
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Nominated by Jessica Scanlon
