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Nyarutosho is home to more than 80 families (a little more than 500 persons) without basic access to sanitation systems. The community built an association to construct 20 latrines to share among the families.
The Lowa, Lulu, Opiroi, Nairimirimo and Lodokume communities (Samburu communities) live in a semi-arid area in Northern Kenya; their economy is based on cattle-raising.
In Nairobi there are 12 slums and, although we cannot be sure of the number of inhabitants that live there, in some of them, for instance in Kibera, more than 1.5 million people are barely surviving.
As a child, Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2004 for her defence of the environment, has studied at the Loreto Girls School in Limuru. This is a secondary school exclusively for girls that provides high quality teaching.
Only one out of four children goes to school in Rwanda. Many Rwandans are still not aware of the importance of education.
The Murambi community in Northern Rwanda consists of several families, most of their members without a stable job. But their main problem is the lack of drinking water.