Stories
From the settlements
Notes on water, school, sanitation, food, shelter, and the girl of the slum.
At the PFWM-sponsored school in Malaa, Machakos, learners are taught how to identify hyenas and protect themselves as attacks rise around Oldonyo Sabuk.
At the PFWM-sponsored school in Malaa, Machakos, learners are taught how to identify hyenas and protect themselves as attacks rise around Oldonyo Sabuk.
In Kaseveni, Malaa, the school Problem Free Movement sponsors plants with the community — five seedlings to each homestead every rainy season.
She is the route to real change — not because she is a symbol, but because her week is the week of the settlement.
Cartels, broken pipes, and a jerry can that eats the school morning.
Free education still has a fare: distance, crowding, and a sanitary pad.
If the latrine is far, darkness is the only privacy. That is not privacy.
For a family of four, that is less than a dollar each — and the girl eats last.
Muthaiga pairs with Mathare. When poverty shares a postcode with wealth, the formula misses it.
Policy, custody of funds, and a director who reports — not a private project.