{"id":3880,"date":"2018-08-16T07:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T07:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:50:56","slug":"hope-grows-in-messy-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/hope-grows-in-messy-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in the slums"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the centre of Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya, on what used to be a rubbish dump, stand three schools, a boarding house for teenage girls, a church, a medical clinic, some outhouses for animals and a basic kitchen. There are fewer open sewers and more roads here than anywhere else in Kibera and every day 1,400 children come to learn and be fed.<\/p>\n

In January this year a team of six British women left the Midlands to spend a week helping in one of the schools. It\u2019s hard being a child in Kibera slum. Some drop out of school when they are eight to work on the rubbish dump, rummaging through the waste looking for things to sell. There is a high rate of unemployment and alcoholism. Girls are vulnerable to sexual exploitation and trafficking. A 12-year-old girl\u2019s education isn\u2019t as valuable to a Kiberan father as the dowry of cows her marriage might bring. Rachel and Hannah from Hinckley, Leicestershire spent the week with the teenage girls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were aged between 15 and 19 and most hadn\u2019...<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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