This shows what's commonly referred to as a "paper house".
It's constructed out of anything the owner can scrounge lying around on the ground.
Now and then the city crews come in and destroy these houses because they're illegal..
The residents have no choice but to rebuild and start over,
as they have no where else to live.
It's constructed out of anything the owner can scrounge lying around on the ground.
Now and then the city crews come in and destroy these houses because they're illegal..
The residents have no choice but to rebuild and start over,
as they have no where else to live.
Practically all rural Kenyan women (and many urban ones as well) do this each and every day in order to cook - gather firewood.
This photo likely speaks for itself.
As I took this picture, a man urinated near me.“Now, this is Africa! Do you have such things in your country?”
I wasn’t sure if he referred to himself unabashedly urinating in public
or to the unsightly and smelly pile of trash!
Slums in Africa will accelerate the spread of HIV/AIDS according to Dr. Kevin Kelly, an Aids expert from South Africa. Poverty and the breakdown of values in slums are partly to blame for the phenomenon. “A greater number of boys and girls at the sexually active age come into contact more often with each other due to overcrowding,” said Kelly.
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