With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums, spreading Christmas spirit. Hundreds of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community advocacy ...

Kennedy Odede, aged 41, is a Kenyan social entrepreneur and the founder of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), a grassroots movement that started in the slums of Kibera. He made history in July ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rye Barcott was heading into the U.S. Marines in 2000 when he decided to spend part of his summer living in tiny shacks in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, to better ...

When Tabitha Atieno Festo retired from nursing, she went home with little money to survive on. Though she dreamt of starting a business, her financial position could not allow her and had to live in ...

Ruto made the promise last Sunday, during a church function next to the Kibera slum in Nairobi. He said the ambitious vision will be achieved through his government’s Affordable Housing Project.

Kennedy Odede knows what poverty is. He grew up in Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It's a place filmmakers and aid organisations visit to capture images of extreme poverty. A ...