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...small loans to keep her business going or cover the costs of a family emergency. But Margaret knows no matter how hard she works, her family members will probably live out their lives in a one-room tin shack with no electricity, water or sewage. They are trapped in Kibera, a squalid slum where 1 million Kenyans struggle to survive, passing poverty on from one generation to the next...
...Kibera--and in thousands of other urban settlements around the world--poor citizens like Margaret have no legal identity: no birth certificates, legal addresses or deeds to their shacks and market stalls. Without legal documents, they live in constant fear of being evicted by local officials or landlords. Joseph Muturi, 33, who runs a small clothing business in Toi market, says, "We live with the thought that bulldozers can flatten our stalls anytime. I know that in a matter of hours, all this can disappear...
...clear that Blair wasn't going to stand down did the plates start flying through the air." The sound of breaking crockery can be heard well beyond the confines of Westminster. A BBC TV crew, accompanying Brown on his Africa trip, asked a passerby in the Kenyan shantytown of Kibera if he recognized the visiting dignitary. The reply: "He's Tony Blair's biggest rival." Few members of the Labour Party believe that what now divides their leaders is ideology. "There may be discussions about how quickly you implement change or the way you present change, but their approach...
...that recounts his journey to Kenya with aid workers from Care International, is also a departure from his usual persona. The millions of fans who have made Bryson's nine books worldwide best sellers will find little acerbity in sober tales of places like the Dadaab refugee camp or Kibera, a slum in southern Nairobi. "I was shocked at what I saw, but I also had to be careful not to damage Care's standing in the community," he says, explaining his decision to rein in his biting prose. "This is primarily a fund-raising exercise." Bryson will donate...
Establishing a legacy will be especially important next year, when Fallows graduates and joins Kibera and Sims in San Francisco...