Kibera slum is located in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the biggest and the poorest African slum with a population of around one million.

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Everyday kids lose their parents to AIDS and are left to survive in these slums. Most houses here are wooden shacks with a mud floor and a tin roof - no toilets or running water.

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The available schools have been started by NGO’s and the hospitals and clinics are either NGO or private.

The schools in this Nairobi slum will usually have mud/dirt floors, grey mud walls and old school wooden pews. The classes may be the size of your lounge and have as many as 60 kids and no books, no pens, pencils or other writing materials.

The inhabitants of Kibera live on less than a dollar a day. Often they do not have enough money to pay the school fees or buy food and medicine.The homes, most of which are just shacks, are either made out of mud, plastered over sticks and boards, or made from mabati (corrugated iron sheets). A few are plastered over with cement.

The number of orphans continues to rise steeply and the community has no systematic planned alternatives for caring for orphaned children. Orphaned children in a slum environment face a number of problems such as lack of adequate food and essential needs, lack of affection and security, lack of socialization, lack of confidence and self esteem, exploitation and abuse and social isolation. Most orphaned children and children of infected parents are found out of schools as a result of the problem of poverty. With no proper care may of these vulnerable children end up in the streets increasing their vulnerability further to HIV/AIDS