As climate change hits African farmers hard, people are migrating in growing numbers from rural areas to cities, where they are exposed to floods, fire and other dangers, a problem Nairobi is trying to tackle by upgrading its slum areas.
The road, built in 2014, has been good for business. “Many people pass here and, from 4pm, I get a lot of customers, they even queue to buy fish,” said Akinyi jovially.
Andrew Aluo, a motorcycle taxi driver from Mathare, another big informal settlement in the Kenyan capital, said the Nairobi City County government was improving the slum by opening it up, installing street lights and supplying water. And 205 000 Kenyans have already registered for a new government scheme called “Boma Yangu” , which aims to provide half a million affordable homes in the next five years.
These days, she can wash her clothes and fetch water for nothing, spending the money she saves on milk for her child.
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