List of slums that are located within Nairobi

There are many slums located in different parts of Nairobi and many people living in these places really struggle to make ends meet each and every day. Being able to have a smile on their face is just but a blessing.

Here are some of the slums located in Nairobi.

1. Kibera

It is the second largest slum in the world and home to so many people. Most people living here are living in extreme poverty estimated to earn kshs 100 per day.

Life here is hard with scarcity of clean water, limited schools, crime rates being high one has to be tough to be able to face all these.

2.Mathare Valley

It is one of the oldest slums in Nairobi. There are no beds, no electricity, and no running water. People sleep on pieces of cardboard on the dirt floors of the shanties. There are public toilets shared by up to 100 people and residents have to pay to use them.

Those who cannot afford to pay must use the alleys and ditches between the shanties. "Flying toilets" are plastic bags used by the residents at night, then thrown into the Nairobi River, which is the source of the residents' water supply.

Life here is also quite hard .

3. Dandora slum

It is an eastern suburb of Nairobi that surrounds neighbourhoods called estates include Kariobangi, Baba Dogo, Gitare Marigo and Korogocho.

Dandora is also home to the largest dumpsite in Nairobi. Crime rates are high around this area and their is also scarcity of clean water.

4. Kawangware slum

It is estimated that many people staying here are children and the youth. Most of the adults and youth here are self-employed traders since the unemployment rates in Kenya had increased.

There is a scarcity of drinking water since water provided by the local authorities isn't available everyday making the people have to get other means of getting water.

5. Korogocho

Korogocho is in the northeast of the city centre, and was founded as a shanty town on the then outskirts of the city.

It has numerous  people living there , which shows that rural to urban migration had a great influence in the increase of these slums .

6. Mukuru kwa Njenga

It  is a slum in the East of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It sits in Embakasi Constituency, but extends into Makadara and Starehe constituencies. It is one of the largest slums in Nairobi.

It stretches along the Nairobi Ngong river, situated on waste lands in the industrial area of the city between the Outer Ring Road and the North Airport Road and mombasa road. Mukuru have villages Mukuru kwa Reuben, Mukuru kwa Njenga, Sinai, Paradise, Jamaica, Kingston, Mariguini, Futata Nyayo and Kayaba