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Sarh Foster, Village of Love Canda volunteer, with Leonora Obara, Project Officer for kijiji Cha upendo (Village of Love) in Kibera.My trip to Kibera was a great learning experience for me. For the past year, I have been volunteering in Toronto, Canada, for a group called Village of Love Canada (www.villageoflovecanada.org) whose purpose is to raise funds for a grassroots NGO in Kibera, called Kijiji Cha Upendo (Village of Love, in Swahili).
Kibera is located in Nairobi, Kenya, and is the largest urban slum in all of Africa. Sadly, within Kibera there are roughly 20,000 orphans trying to survive and get by. Many families and widows take in orphans so they aren’t left alone to live in the streets, turning to crime and prostitution.
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