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WORST CITY - Nairobi, Kenya |
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Nairobi, Kenya
Population:
2,700,000
Worst Feature:
Miles of Slums, Garbage & Crime
Best Feature:
The Carnivore Restaurant – where you can eat crocodile or a number of other
interesting game meats – it is only a rumour that “American
Tourist” is on the menu.
Though not nearly as dangerous or unpleasant as some of the other African
cities placed on this list, Nairobi still is not a place one should consider
relocating, unless they are moving form say Gary, Indiana.
Kenya is very
much a divided city, in the poorest areas the streets of Nairobi are plagued
with a foul smelling sludge that turns into rivers of garbage and raw sewage
during rain falls.
Of it’s over 2 and half million residents, almost 2
million of them live in squalor in the slums, and not in the modern
skyscrapers of the picturesque Nairobi Skyline.
While once earning the
nickname of “Nai-robbery” – according to official government estimates crime
rates are down, but that does not rule out the occasional tourist
kidnapping, or Embassy Bombing.
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Slum housing in Nairobi, Kenya |
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Crocodile and Mango
Sauce - a favourite in Nairobi, Kenya - but not for the people in slum
housing.
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Help starving children in Nairobi with
Generation for Change and Growth
Northern Kenyan Communities lag far behind the rest
of Kenya and by extension the larger E. African communities in terms of
Education, Health and Economy. The region is known to have the lowest
enrolment in schools and the lowest performance in annual assessment exams.
Furthermore, according to the United Nations, kenya's North E. province has
the least number of girls enrolment in primary schools in the whole world.
And according to kenya's Ministry of Education, over 80% of school aged
children (>200,000) in the region are not in school. Other sources suggest
figures from the Ministry of Education are under estimated.
Medical and Healthcare services are scarcely available leading to alarming
increase in the rates of killer diseases like Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS,
Malaria and, Maternal and Child death, among others. There are only 9
doctors serving a population of 1.3 million. GCG has therefore taken the
initiative to work with these communities to ameliorate the intensity of
healthcare crisis.
Within the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area the current focus is on education.
Currently we are seeing thousands of refugee children being underserved in
our public schools. They are being placed in classes based on age, not
educational attainment; they are given only three years of direct ESL
instruction regardless of language fluency. There are no mechanisms for
special placements or exemption from state testing requirements even though
there is no chance they are ready to perform well on the tests, (or
frequently even ready to complete them). As a result of these needs from
within the community the agency has developed this local initiative, to
provide mentoring and tutoring services to refugee children.
Generation for Change and Growth
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