From roads to water, Nairobi slum upgrades bear fruit for residentsFood vendor Mary Akinyi, 39, a single mother of three, arranged her dried fish on a table at the side of a busy road in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, getting ready for peak hours in the early evening.The road, built in 2014, has been good for business. Before, there were no tarmac roads to Lindi, a village in Kibera, restricting custom and hiking transport costs. Andrew Aluo, a motorcycle taxi driver from Mathare, another big informal settlement in the Kenyan capital, said the Nairobi City County government was improving the slum by opening it up, installing street lights and supplying water. Emergency services, such as the fire brigade, can now also access the slum much more easily, he added. “As our global climate continues to change, so has the intensity, frequency and unpredictability of natural hazards increased,” said Omran by email.

Source: Standard Digital April 16, 2019 09:56 UTC