Kibera

One of the highlights of my trip to Kenya was doing a tour through Kibera--one of Africa's largest slums, located in Nairobi. While on tour, I was able to meet some people who worked for Carolina for Kibera (partly funded by the CDC)--an NGO which is busy setting up clinics for people to receive medical attention. While I've seen slums before and no doubt will see them again, this time was different in that I actually got to meet people out in the field who were trying to help alleviate the dire living conditions. Sometimes you can't help but feel so ashamed that either out of negligence and/or greed and/or apathy that Western governments (and local governments) have allowed this sort injustice to continue..and as the world becomes smaller it becomes more and more difficult to ignore the plight of billions of the world's poorest people..we have a long way to go and much work to do.