INTRODUCTION

 Mathare is a slum in Nairobi with a population of approximately 500,000 people. Mathare is reffered to as the oldest and worst slums of africa. it is around 5km from nairobi city centre.
 Worse, some describe or know Mathare to be a place of crime, drugs, unemployment and prostitutes. Mostly there are no frequent visitors to mathare because of the fear for the high rates of crime within the slum area. Only the residents who are well acquinted with very few people in mathare are employed mostly as man power in construction industries others are employed as guards or watchmen while others engage in employed small businesses. Mostly those who do businesses are women.

 Mathare is generally very densely populated and housing is therefore a problem.

Location: MATHARE, nairobi, Kenya