Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, LEDC- Squatter Settlements
- Rural Urban
Migration
- Pull
- Jobs
- Jobs, sevices
- Push
- Poor harvest
- Lack of jobs
- Lack of services
- Problems
- 800,000- 1 million people live in the
shanty town- area of 255ha
- High Density -
1m2 floor space
each
- over 100,000 children orphans as high
HIV/AIDS
- 60% of Nairobis
habitats live in slums
- Houses
- Made from mud, plastered-over boards, wood or
corrugated iron sheeting
- Paths between houses are
ditches, filled with sewage often
- Rubbish not
collected
- Crime
- Groups offer security at a price
- Police reluctant to enter
- Water
- Standpipe may supply
water for up to 40 families.
- Private operators run
pipes into areas and
may charge double
- Solutions
- Self-help service
- Formal way of helping squatter settlements
- Land is chosen for scheme & infrastruture is
laid in advance ---> provide water, sanitation
and electricity is supplied properly.
- People build homes using
affordable materials
- Land is divided into individual plots.
- Site and service
- Local athorities help squatter
settlements residents to improve
homes.
- Offer finace in form of loans/grants & often installing
water, sanitation, etc... ---> lead to skills, then jobs
- Improving conditions
- WIDES
- Help dispose of waste
- Trying to improve
sewage systems
- Providing toilets and
public baths.
- Kenya Water for Health organisation
- Provides piped water for people living
in squatter settlements.
- Clean water & how to
disinfect it with Ultra Violet
- Help
- Practical Action
(British charity)
- Responsible for
developing low cost
roofing from sand &
clay
- Adding lime and natural fibre to soil
to create blocks used for building
---> cheaper then concrete
- The United Nations
Human Settlement
Programme
- Affordable electricity (300 kenyan
shillings per shack)
- Up too 2 main water pipes
- Improve sanitation
- Government
- Re-house thousands of residents
---> new blocks of flats- running
water, electricity.
- Residents involved with plans
of funding of 650 million kenyan
shillings - not work.
- Built housing for 600 people.
- --> Help break out the poverty cycle
as houses become cleaner.