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Mathare Valley

Mathare Valley

Welcome to a home of hundreds of thousands of people - Mathare Valley slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Mathare is one of the biggest slums in Africa and in many ways is like any other slum. There are many hard working people who are selling fresh produce, labouring and brewing illicit alcoholic drinks in order to sustain theirs families in the hardest of conditions.

Mathare is full of energy - walking through the slum you will hear energetic young happy children playing, crying babies and very loud music everywhere you go.

The sum of one dollar a day is the measurement of how poor a person really is. Someone earning less than one dollar per day is said to be living in abject poverty without the ability to sustain their own life and the lives of their family. Many people in Mathare consider themselves lucky to be earning even such a small amount of money.