Urban Slum Transformed into Urban Farm

Reuters Video. Organic farms transform Nairobi slum. (Short advertisement at the start.)

Kibera (Nubian: Forest or Jungle) is a neighbourhood and province division of Nairobi, Kenya. It is the largest of Nairobi’s slums, and the second largest urban slum in Africa, with an estimated population of between 600,000 and 1.2 million inhabitants.

Kiberas Youth Reform Organic Farm – Nairobi, Kenya

By Public Radio Exchange
“The Kibera Youth Reform Organic Farm began on a 3 meter deep garbage dump in Africa’s largest slum. The transformation started in April 2008 and took three and a half months, prooving anything is possible. Claire Niala asked Su Kahumbu, Director of Green Dreams (the first locally certified organic farm in Kenya) to assist the Kibera Youth Reform Group comprising 70 young men and women who had decided to change their ways of crime. They wished to transform a garbage site into a farm, growing crops for their own consumption as well as for sale if possible.

“A year after initiation, the farm has an abundance of healthy crops ranging from Kales, cabbage, spinach, carrots, onions, okra, sugarcane, maize, tomatoes, eggplants, passion fruit, comfrey, dania and amaranthus to name a few! The members of the youth group not only benefit from fresh vegetables but income from sales as well as consultancies – offering their services to other boroughs in Kibera with regards to organic farming.”

See Kibera Youth Reform Organic Farm one year later

See more photos of the farm here.

Read more about Kibera here.