Nairobi's Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. To make matters worse, ethnic tension periodically boils over, adding violence to Kibera's toxic stew of poverty, AIDS, and despair.
Two Harvard graduate students are working to bring hope, health, and a little soccer to the slum, through a nonprofit organization one of them founded. The organization empowers local people by giving them the tools and support needed to improve their community and their lives.
Carolina for Kibera Inc., or CFK, was founded by Rye Barcott - a joint M.P.A./M.B.A. student at the Kennedy School and Harvard Business School - after he spent the summer of 2000 in Kibera studying ethnic violence...
Find out more about Carolina For Kibera (CFK) by clicking here.
Monday, December 18, 2006
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