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Kibera Slum Kids Forum and Fun Day

Posted by Kibera Slum Community Outreach Program on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Under: KISCOP News

Kibera Kids Day 2011

Kibera kids Day 2009

The Nairobi Christian Outreach Center in conjunction with Kibera slum Community Outreach Program and AWANA Kid Club are happy to invite all kids from the Kibera Slums to our 11th edition of Kibera Kids event that is scheduled to happen on the 21st April 2012 from 0700 hrs-1700 hrs at the Nairobi Christian Outreach Center in Silanga Kibera. This is one of the biggest kid’s annual events that bring together Kibera kids from all walks of life regardless of ethnic or religious background to commemorate and celebrate the Kibera Kids. The activities of the day will include bible class lessons, drawing, painting, singing and dancing competitions, drama, poetry and art work among others.

This year will look forward to register more than 1500 kids. This means that we will need more volunteers, teachers, nurses and doctors. We will also need materials like crayons, pencils/coloring pencils, paints, balls, skipping ropes, dolls and toys, first aid kits, t-shirts, shoes, clothes, sandal/thongs, school back packs among other related things. Our budget for this year’s event amounts to USD 2000. This will help us in feeding and giving refreshments to the kids. We welcome any physical, Financial or material donation. We also covet your prayers.

This year’s theme is "Can anything good come out of Kibera"? We welcome all of you to come and see.

For more information please drop us a note on our contact page

Or call Daniel on +254 726 790 910 or e-mail: princekagwetha@ymail.com

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Kibera Slum Community Outreach Program (KISCOP) was birthed in the year 2006 in the sprawling slums of Kibera in Nairobi Kenya. This was after we realized that a great number of children and the people of Kibera slum community were not enjoying their basic human rights as spelled out in our national constitution such as the right to education, food, shelter, health and sanitation among other related basic rights. This is as a result of high level of poverty and illiteracy. The program has been operating under the banner and affiliation of the Nairobi Christian Outreach Center for the last six years. Beginning this year the program has transformed into a fully operational community based organization(CBO) and has applied for registration with the relevant authority under it's own constitution and rights.

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Kibera slum is located in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the largest and the poorest African slum with a population of around one million covering about some 250 hectares of land.The name “Kibera” is derived from kibra, a Nubian word meaning “forest” or “jungle.”

The slum originated in 1918 as a Nubian soldiers’ settlement in a forest outside Nairobi, with plots allotted to soldiers as a reward for service in the First World War and earlier wars. For some reason, though, the British never gave the Nubians the title deeds to their new land. The soldiers built homes, and set up businesses. But they were squatters - with no legal rights.

After Kenyan independence in 1963, however, various forms of housing were made illegal by the government, rendering Kibera unauthorized on the basis of land tenure. Essentially, since the early 1970s landlords have rented out their property to a significantly greater number of tenants than legality permits. Since the tenants, who are extremely poor, are unable to obtain or rent land that is “legal” according to the Kenyan government, the slum-dwellers find the rates offered to be comparatively affordable. The number of residents in Kibera has increased accordingly despite its unauthorized nature.