Kibera Slums

 

 

 

But in reality it really isn’t a dump, just a place where
you live because you are poor. Your house is made of cow dung, mud and trash.
Everywhere you step there is a possibility of falling into a murky river of
trash and deadly diseases. Trash lines the streets and tiny muddy walkways. The
smell of human waste and old bananas fill your nose as you walk to your house
that is as big as a master size bedroom, and you even have it better than your
neighbors.

 

You look out at the horizon where there are 10 story
buildings where others live. You wonder what it would be like to have running
water and a clean floor. To have clothes that actually smells clean. What it
would be like to play outside and not be scared to fall in muddy water.

 

 

This is what it would be like if you lived in Kibera slums.
One of the largest slums in the world, rows cluttered with mud huts that
stretches across a land 15 by 6 kilometers. It is now estimated to have 1.2
million people living here, a now city within Nairobi. It is crazy the way they
live.

 

I have to say that I was in awe of the way they lived. Thinking of the nice house that I have at home. The fact that I have running water I can drink and electricity readily available. I really just couldn’t wrap my mind around living a life like this. Knowing that I can very well go home and live in a nice house, no problem.

 

Being on the race, I have lived in some pretty crazy places. 

I couldn’t even imagine living there.