By Julienne Gage
Julienne Gage shot this video while serving as the coordinating producer of the International Reporting Project’s Kenya Bloggers Trip in 2012.
Step
into Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera slum and it’s easy to see how community
tensions escalate into violence.
Overcrowded
shanties, garbage piles, and raw sewage were all contributing factors to the
ethnic clashes and sexual assaults that ravaged this informal settlement after
the 2007 presidential elections.
A
group of local Muslim and Christian women calling themselves the Vision
Sisters, hope their recent community work will mitigate such crises during this
year’s March 4th elections.
They’ve
spent the last year operating a facility all the neighbors can appreciate: a
public bathroom.
Julienne Gage shot this video while serving as the coordinating producer of the International Reporting Project’s Kenya Bloggers Trip in 2012.
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