A new dawn in Kibera
For the last year or so i have been working in Kibera for a peace project that entails bringing together the community based organisations that cary out peace activities in Kibera building thier capacities and pooling them to work together. the challenges of my work not withstanding i have seen great change in the people and particularly the youth. I have seen a side of kibera few know about, a youth that is more engaging, cooperative and equallly aggressive, older men and women who are more cooperative and equally informed and children oh the children aint thy just great.
We recently organised a run for peace, dubbed running the race for peace in kibera and engaged Athletics Kenya who used the races to identiify young talented runners to represent the District in the Provincial championships, that in itself was something great for Kibera. Most of those selected did not even know they could run, they were mostly football players.
Then yesterday 14th Feb 2010 was a memm