| Not long ago the Online Think Tank worked out an | | | | worse the Nairobi Government does not want the |
| action plan to solve the Urban Slum Problem in Nairobi | | | | slums there and says the slum dwellers are squatters, |
| Kenya. Of course solving the Nairobi, Kenya Kibera | | | | trespassers and are there illegally, never mind the real |
| Urban Slum problem is more than just challenging. Did | | | | problems. |
| we solve the problem? Well our plan is the answer to | | | | Many of the people there have no choice as they |
| meeting the challenge. Indeed there are quite a few | | | | have left the rural agricultural areas and come to the |
| barriers in the way. | | | | city. The rural areas have had crop failures due to |
| The Nairobi Government after I sent my report out | | | | both droughts and flooding and people cannot stay |
| to everyone then made a new policy; now they will | | | | there and feed their families, so they come to the |
| not allow "Whites" to visit the slums anymore. | | | | Urban Slums, where the unhealthy conditions are |
| Apparently, I rattled some cages and some good is | | | | worse than horrific. This humanitarian crisis is |
| being done in the surrounding slum areas, I get emails | | | | extremely serious. |
| often telling me of the happenings there. | | | | Although the plan is completed, it is a 10-year plan, as |
| What is lacking? Well, quite frankly: humanity, caring, | | | | the crisis is so huge and growing with some 1.2 million |
| the usual and come on these are humans we are | | | | slum dwellers in Nairobi now, see the problem and it is |
| talking about. And as the Ambassador to Kenya from | | | | not only about politics, it goes far deeper than that, |
| the US stated; corruption, it's pretty bad there. Even | | | | thus is will take some time. |