In the tour we show them proudly the way the people in Kibera live.
Suppliers come to them and they can sometimes go weeks without setting foot outside of Kibera.
FORBES: The Road To Opportunity: A Family's Entrepreneurial Journey To Financial Stability
He was determined to become an entrepreneur carpenter in Kibera, selling on the roadside.
He is an MP who represents Kibera and, in fact, a large area of Nairobi.
Some of those underemployed residents are finding an outlet through the Kibera Film School.
The dead were mainly from one of Nairobi's notorious trouble spots, the sprawling Kibera slum.
As in any major city (or megacity), there is no single profile of a resident of Kibera.
In Kibera, the country's largest slum, shops remained shut and there were small groups of protesters gathering.
Through this window I hope to expose you to the hope, despair, stagnation and opportunity that is Kibera.
In Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum, some 1, 000 people stood in several lines at one polling station before daybreak.
Being tied to the business means family members are always at the hotel, so they are always in Kibera.
FORBES: The Road To Opportunity: A Family's Entrepreneurial Journey To Financial Stability
Her parents came to Kibera in 1991 from Kisumu in search of work.
FORBES: The Road To Opportunity: A Family's Entrepreneurial Journey To Financial Stability
Okello did not have the necessary capital to rent a home in Kibera, or to apply for a menial job there.
In collaboration with locals, he made a short film, "Kibera Kid, " which went on to win a number of international awards.
In Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum and a bastion of Odinga support, many believe this year's results have been rigged as well.
Because the inhabitants of Kibera are among Nairobi's poorest, the goods in its markets are sold at very low price points.
Four decades ago, the Nairobi slum of Kibera, barely two kilometres (a mile) from the leafy charm of the city centre, hardly existed.
There are 14.2 million voters who are supposed to be voting around the country and an awful lot have never been here in Kibera.
Odinga is a long-time MP, a long-time parliamentarian from this very area, Kibera - and Mombasa is the larger area that he is representing.
Not far from the Karen Club is Kibera, a slum of 600, 000 people in an area only a little larger than an 18-hole course.
Through his patio shop he reminds us that design can and should be a catalyst for economic empowerment, and that in Kibera, like everywhere, location matters.
FORBES: Location, Location, Location: How One Man's Patio Is Another Man's Paycheck
Dorphine is the oldest of eight kids ranging from age 11 to 26, and her life and livelihood in Kibera are steeped in the family business.
FORBES: The Road To Opportunity: A Family's Entrepreneurial Journey To Financial Stability
Meanwhile, we can focus other efforts on job-assistance programs, housing, infrastructure, and other things that improve life for both the entrepreneur and the average Kibera resident.
He said gangs trying to make their way into central Nairobi were being repelled with tear gas by police on the edge of the Kibera slum.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga had made a promise to his constituents to build a paved bypass road that reached from one end of Kibera to the other.
FORBES: The Road To Opportunity: A Family's Entrepreneurial Journey To Financial Stability
This was called Kibera, or Kibbr in the Nubian language.
FORBES: Enterprising Nubian Slum-dwellers Dream Of Their Own Homeland in Kibera
Roaming gangs armed with machetes and other homemade weapons burned shops and broke into the homes of their political opponents Saturday in Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya's capital.
Mr. Mbindyo, Equity's Kibera branch manager, said that Mr. Kimote's business had resulted in other customers for the bank, including his suppliers, his drivers and others linked to his enterprise.
应用推荐