Dismas Waganda
The People of Mathare
My name is Dismas Waganda and I live in Mathare slum. I am thirteen years old and I learn in Mathare Community Outreach School.
We are four in number in our family, two boys and two girls. I am in class six and I would like to be a photographer when I grow up because I am interested in it.
Photography has helped a lot of people who live in Mathare slum. Taking picture provides an important message and you can write your own caption about it. Photography and journalism are related.
Every part of the world has its own slum and governments are trying to help them but it is very hard. But there are some efforts which have been taken to make sure that children go to school to learn how to read and write.
In our slum there are no bridges and so we are calling upon our government to build us one bridge so that the photographer can cross to the other side and take really good pictures. We are interested to take pictures of things which are interesting like a complete bridge.
Street families do not have anything to eat or drink but they do survive miraculously and that is why a tourist needs to take a picture of these things to their country. You see that is why I am interested in photography since I want to take educational pictures.
October 2007