The Environment

photo by Martin Ndung'u

Environment is an area which is surrounded by living and non-living things, to make our environment clean we need to have dumping site and youths to volunteer to plant trees.  Without that our environment will be dirty and we can get diseases like cholera or we can get worms in our bodies and this sometimes can lead to death.There in the slums called kibera where we don’t have any dumping site they dump the garbage any where they feel like again they don’t have toilets they normally use flying toilets, the railways is getting spoiled because when you pass there early in the morning you get peoples using it like toilets and busy smoking cigarettes and marijuana they don’t think they are spoiling the environment and they don’t remember to clean or to take care of it.

poto by liz

There is a guy whose called marvelous the guy is well disciplined and his parents used to take care us usually like their child because of the life in the slums the guy started spoiling himself by using marijuana and stealing things which can not help him for his entire life.

His friends started getting away from him and he decided to live his own life alone last month his parents went back at Kisumu he was told to take care for his parents house

Because of how he get crazy he can’t take care for anything those drugs shows him to walk day and night searching for foods and drugs to use after getting all those things he start going around joking and laughing alone and talking.

He used to spoil every where like when he get trees he start cutting them down without any reason the guy now is in the had situation because he don’t know what next in his life

Drugs and dirty environment is reading youths to un well planned life and after all they read to death all about environment in our slums we need to have dumping sites so that to prevent our children in our slums not to get disease.

 

I’m pleading to the government  of Kenya to start up garbage collection projects and this will ensure that our environment is conducive for all of us and also our future too.

 

Anything Shines Is Not Gold

There I was at the in westland hottest point ds looking at what nature had brought out this fine Friday wasn’t lucky this time to find some fly guys who were clearly starring at us. The spice girls, we were called because we always caused a stir wherever we went.we got due to attention as usual. Since I have always considered myself this hottest of as fire

As we were still starring there I naturally made my way towards john, the flyest of them all .as I moved closer to him I smiled at him only to get a silly smirk on his face and his back turned on me. My pals laughed at this so I thought,hey—-who does he think he is he can’t embarrass me like this and get away with it.

So I walked over to him and asked him what the deal was he quick to blast me that he wasn’t starring at me but at my friend at the back, how stupid I felt, didn’t bother going to that cool joint I felt shy and went back to my pals and they started asking me what had taken me there to get all the shy.

There I realized that that’s where we get engaged to the things that are not supposed to done. Because the guy was new to me.I falled in love with him because of how he clad. And the smile he gave out

So guys we try as much as we can while going somewhere take your minds there not just to see something shinning and you think that it is a gold guys we be very careful with our lives..

My Community

My community is called Kibera (Katwera) where I have friends who are affected emotionally and physically.

 Here in our community we normally pass through many problems which we go through together with our parents.
In our community we do have many street boys and some are becoming street boys because of drug abuse, eg bhang, changaa etc.

It makes them get mad (crazy) and they start walking naked all over and shouting for nothing and after all they forget their home’s they start sleeping in the vibanda (stalls where vegetables are sold during the day).
Some of the girls in the community when they use those drugs they engage themselves into unplanned sex, or get raped. That’s where they get diseases like sexually transmitted diseases, HIV or they get pregnant. Then they get abortions.
Still we do have street children and people who are HIV positive and they are suffering. They lack somebody to advice them so they loose hope in their lives and they start spreading HIV even to young generations. The community is getting spoiled.
We need help to deal with such issues. Like if us young generation can get something to do like courses or a business.

That would be good because we wouldn’t get anytime to use drugs or to hustle in a way of prostitution.
I would like to advice young generations in other communities to be careful about drug abuse cuz we are getting mad (crazy) because of something which cannot help our family back at home.

 Instead of spoiling our health in such things, we get addicted, and we gain nothing in life.

life in kibera

My name is Liz Muthoni. I live in Nairobi in a slum called Kibera. I am 18 years old. I moved to Kibera in January from Nakuru where I was born. Am trying to advice young peoples who have lose hope in their lives.

I used to live with my mother in Nakuru until I had to drop out of school in form 2 because we did not have enough money to pay the school fees. That is when I moved to Kibera to live with my sister, Alice. My sister is 35 and has been living in Kibera for many years. She sells vegetables in a cabana. I live with my sister, her husband, and their three children in their three room house.

I wake up every morning at 6:30 and help my sister’s children get ready for school. I cook them tea and bread for breakfast. Then I start doing my duties in the house like washing utensils and sweeping the house. After that, I take a shower. At 10am I go to my family’s workplace where I clean and get it ready for the day. At 3pm I go get my five year old nephew from school. Once I am home again, I start preparing supper.

When I think about my community, I think about orphans, people with HIV/AIDS, widows, and street children. I live in a ghetto. A ghetto is a dirty. We have garbage everywhere. We have diseases because they dump garbage everywhere. We have a sewage problem. We don’t have plumbing so after cooking people throw their dirty water and garbage into the drains in the street. These get filled with garbage and stink. When there is too much garbage the water doesn’t move.

Our houses are built with metal, wood, and mud. But most of them are built with mud. When it rains, like it did last night, the drains fill up and overflow. Then, everything that was in the drains comes in to peoples’ houses. Not everybody has electricity some of them steal from their neighbors or they use lumper life in ghetto is hard.

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