Golden Cut Report
A Romanian writer said once that living is like driving a car, you always have to use the windshield, to look forward, and to progress, but sometimes you have to look through the mirrors, see what you’ve accomplished, what you can improve, and always share. This is what I will try to do now, look back a little bit, but suddenly my thoughts go to a place that not so long ago I used to call home. I remember reading the reports from previous DIs in Hornsjo, and being curious about their adventures, their experiences, their stories, and the stories of the people they’ve met. Mathare Slum- fighting with the poor
Mathare is one of the biggest slums in East Africa and the oldest in Kenya, counting officially around 70.000 inhabitants and still expanding, but in the community the rumors are that the population is around 500.000 living in around 25.000 households. Situated only 5 km from the center of Nairobi, a part of the world that nobody remembers, Mathare is bursting with dirt, poverty, overcrowd, misery, nevertheless life. This was my prejudice and my 1st impression of India when I arrived there in November 2011. Contrary to the ideas and impressions of other DIs who have been there before and shared the experience, I did not find India so loud, dirty and polluted. For me it was a strange feeling that there is no order and no rule, not in the traffic, not in terms of people or prices. J. I spent six months there, mostly in Rajasthan where together with 2 other DIs , joined the Green Action , Dausa .
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