Villages Of Soweto West And Gatwekera Finally Lights-up

After weeks of conducting surveys in the villages of Soweto West, parts of Gatwekera Village, Makina and Kianda.
Kibera Town Centre, who are part of a joint project funded by Livelihood Impact Fund, that also include Map Kibera Trust who head the survey team, erected street lights along Kona club-Gatwekera road.


The lights will address the security concerns raised by the residents during the survey, such as muggings along the dark corridors, fears of robbery incidences for businesses that run until late in the night.

The lights were erected in line with the feedback collected from the survey, as a way of giving back to the community.

The ongoing project will have a second phase of the survey, where enumerators will once again visit members of the community to asses the impact of the lightings and how that translate to improvement of livelihood within the community, in terms of income, business expansions, general security among other factors.

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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