23 Oct, 2024 1:16 PM

Almost 6,000 tons of garbage accumulates in slums within Nairobi on a daily basis. The Kenyan capital city does not have a seamlessly functioning garbage collection system, leading to catastrophic consequences for the health of the residences in these informal settlements.

That is a huge volume, especially for a city whose professional waste management systems favour only the privileged sections predominantly occupied with the rich. Kibra Slums in Nairobi is one such settlement where hundreds of thousands of residents live without proper garbage control systems.

Obvious solutions are however available. The freely flowing waste water can be canalized, with the litter collected and composted in proper landfills for incineration or processed for recycling. The recycling of valuable raw materials has the potential of developing into a profitable business model, ending up with enterprises that can employ thousands of idle unemployed youth.

GOT SINAI FOUNDATION believes that the battle can be won. The NGO believes that waste is not worthless. All that is required is appreciating the value of waste and to use it for the betterment of both promoting environmental health and creating employment opportunities for the masses within communities. The organization has been deeply first and foremost involved in raising public awareness and educating people about the dangers of the garbage problem.

Garbage possesses a big danger and threat to their health of the communities living within the slums. It is for this reason that more often than not cases of malaria, typhoid, cholera and other waterborne diseases outbreak are rampant in these settlements.

GOT SINAI FOUNDATION is effectively involved the community living with Kibra slum in undertaking regular cleaning of the spiraling garbage by clearing the terraces and collecting the solid wastes and tones of plastics thrown everywhere anyhow.

Through these deliberate efforts, supported by our partners, and in collaboration with the local community leaders, the slum is slowly becoming habitable.

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