The Challenge
Korogocho Slum is one of the most densely populated informal settlements in Kenya. It is home to approximately 200,000 people living in a 1.5 square kilometre piece of land located next to the city’s main garbage dumping site (Dandora dumpsite).
The families in Korogocho live in deplorable conditions of extreme poverty. They lack decent housing with proper water supply, sanitation, solid waste management, electricity and infrastructure. Add high levels of drug abuse, insecurity, unemployment and illiteracy and the families are locked in a seemingly never-ending cycle of hopelessness.
We can change this. With your help, we can restore the dignity and hope of the families in Korogocho.
Our Intervention
While we cannot wave a magic wand and have decent homes for all the 200,000+ people living in Korogocho Slum right away, we believe gradual progress is possible.
It is for this reason that CHG has joined hands with a Korogocho-based CBO Mwamko to roll out the pilot project, which will provide safe and decent homes to 26 families (impacting 180 people) currently living in Korogocho.
We have already purchased land strategically located on the outskirts of Nairobi and are now looking to raise by December 2019 to kick-off the building phase of the project.
How We Do IT
Providing decent and safe housing to the poorest communities is the foundation of our work, but we also appreciate that it takes more than just bricks and mortar for a community to thrive.
That is why CHG takes a holistic, sustainable and long-term approach, providing a model that looks to equip the rehoused families with the capacity to thrive in their new homes and communities.
