Mapping Different Villages In Kibera

Mapping different villages in Kibera comes with different experiences,
Soweto east village in the far east end of Kibera have the most insecure residents, having witnessed massive demolitions from the halted slum upgrading program.


Any government or NGO activity in the village is met with resistant and suspicion. People fear being left homeless by projects that most of them don’t understand.
Laini Saba, which is the immediate neighbor to Soweto East, is interestingly the opposite. They are inquisitive and want to know more of any ongoing project. And once they understand it, they welcome it and actively take part in it. With most of them seeing it as a way out of the slum, to better housing facilities.


Silanga village is currently battling the dams eviction issue is difficult to judge as per now. Emotions are high in this village where fear and hope are mixed up with residents hoping for a good Samaritan to offer them an alternative place to relocate.
Willingness to talk to our enumerators conducting the household survey is at 50/50

About Steve Banner

I’m a Video Editor, Videographer, Photographer and Blogger with over ten years of experience covering stories for Kibera News Network in Kibera, Kangemi, Mukuru and Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya. I'm the main blogger for Voice Of Kibera blog writing stories from Kibera slums since 2013. Using my editing skills acquired at the Action-Aid Doctivist Media Training, I started my own entertainment publisher named VibeNo_8 that consists of a blog site (vibeno8.wordpress.com) and a YouTube Channel (VibeNo.8 TV) My passion is telling stories about community issues. In the past, I’ve done stories about incomplete government projects dealing with water and housing in Nairobi slums. My goal is to amplify the voice of my neighbors and fellow slum dwellers. My film-making skills also led-me to pursue disc jockey, where I graduated with Certificate in music structure and beat matching at the Rockers Entertainment Deejay Academy in 2015 My work has sharpened my skills in using different editing software namely Vegas Pro, Premier Pro, Final Cut Pro as well as photo editing tools such as Photoshop I have been part of the team doing Live broadcast for Kibera News Network using a camera and the OBS software I currently run all the social media sites for Kibera News Network as well as my personal project social media sites that include VibeNo_8 and Creatives 254 I'm an ambitious and hardworking person always giving my best and everything that I do
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