Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community ...

Zacharia Muinde of Map Kibera Trust shows teachers and students their school's page on Open Schools Kenya, a mapping project that helps residents find information on local schools. Courtesy Map Kibera ...

10,000 new residents arrive in Kibera every year. At such a dizzying rate, it is no wonder that the slum, in southern Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest in Africa. The community was first settled when the ...

An initiative aimed at creating the first open map of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya: “And yesterday we spent the whole day at MS ActionAid Kenya, where the Danish students were introduced to mapping ...

Punch in “Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya,” on Google Maps and the world’s most popular map will populate a street grid with regular intersections, the shaded image of a dozen buildings per block, and pins ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Peter Nyagesera's sisters died, leaving him to raise their nine orphaned children, he felt drawn to help other single mothers and street children living in ...

NAIROBI, KENYA — Not many good news stories make it out of Kibera, a sprawling slum in the heart of the Kenyan capital, and the ones that do usually reflect the rougher side of life in this ...

The installation of skyline water pipes has been a positive development for residents of the Kenyan capital's sprawling Kibera slum. Having to make do with contaminated water delivered to them via ...

More than 7,000 miles from the lavish fanfare of New York City’s Fifth Avenue, Kibera’s bustling streets tell a divergent story of fashion ingenuity. Throughout the Nairobi area settlement, bold ...

Upcoming designers in Nairobi showcase their designs in the second edition of the Kibera Fashion Week. David Ochieng, a.k.a Avido, designer and founder of Kibera Fashion Week has two goals: to show ...

On Wednesday afternoons, after the final bell of the day, a cement-walled classroom in the impoverished Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera is transformed into a ballet studio. The room is cleared of its ...