First arts and crafts class with our visiting artist in residency from Portugal, Sebastião Lobo.

First Kibera clean-up team employing 30 young offenders to clean up mountains of trash that pollute the walkways and waterways of the slum.

First free health checks for our children and their families, by Penda Health.

First sound bath meditation. Calming nervous systems and cultivating inner peace.

First cartoons, watched during recess.

First dance competition.

First time working on computers, generously donated to our school.

First visit to an organic farm, awakening the farmer within and showing them a world outside the slum.

First school football (soccer) tournament where the kids came in 8th and had a ball.

First reflective safety vest to wear while traveling to and from school to avoid being hit by motorcycles, or sexually assaulted, which is a frequent occurrence in the slum.

First access to a school library, thanks to donated books and toys from our Little Lions book club out of the UK.

First plumbed toilets and sinks with running water.

First time dining in a school cafeteria, lovingly built on our rooftop, where the kids are served two hot meals a day. Sometimes these are the only meals they eat.

First Internet access allowing for online tutoring resources from Oak National Academy.

First outdoor courtyard for recreation, music and dance. It's safe, planted with greenery with a colorful custom mural by French artist Oran Signal.

Most schools are informal arrangements where a small room will host up to a hundred children, overseen by a single teacher, or in some cases, a couple of teachers trying to teach different classes from opposite corners of the room.

Meat is not refrigerated in the slum, refrigeration is expensive. Instead, meat is hung and sold as quickly as possible over a few days. Nothing on the animal is wasted.

The local hair salon is known as a Kinyozi. With very little in way of possessions, getting your hair done is a luxury service.

Most of everything in Kibera is second hand, all clothes, shoes, books, cooking utensils, metal sheets for the walls of your house.

A local shop for buying essentials. Products are broken down into single use to make them cheaper to purchase.

The day starts pre-dawn with the household rising to collect water, walk to the public toilets to wait in line, get children ready for school and start the average 2 hour commute to menial jobs paying an average of $4 per day.

There are no Government services, including trash collection. Local goats rummage through the trash for things to eat. These slum goats will become food for the inhabitants of Kibera, a food system of waste and trash.

One of our parents, Beatrice is known as a Mama Mboga (Vegetable Mum), she sells tomatoes, spinach and onions alongside a bun made of flour, oil and salt as one of the staple, low cost foods.

The cheapest form of energy is charcoal, sold by the local charcoal trader to be burned on open stoves in cramped, closed off shacks. Families sit in these toxic fumes as their Mothers and Fathers prepare the food each day.

There is no plumbing in Kibera, and no one has an internal bathroom in their tiny homes. Toilets like this, called a ‘choo’ (Cho) are public access and often cost a fee to access, in this case, ten shillings.

No one has running water, it is all brought to the slum by NGOs and other organisations and stored in publicly accessible tanks. Residents wait in line to fill their water containers that will be used for washing, cooking and drinking.

John is the dedicated cook at Little Lions School, where he takes immense pride in preparing nutritious and delicious meals for the children. His warm and caring nature ensures that each child feels valued and well-nourished. John’s culinary skills are matched by his kindness, making him a beloved figure among the students. He understands the importance of a healthy diet for growing minds and bodies and consistently goes above and beyond to provide meals that are both tasty and balanced. John’s commitment to the well-being of the children at Little Lions School is truly admirable, making him an indispensable part of the school community.

David wanders the streets of Kibera whilst his mother looks for work. When she finds work, he attends a school, when she isn’t he doesn’t. His potential, snuffed out from the beginning.

Mary lives in a tin shack divided into two rooms using a cotton sheet as a wall. She is a mother to three beautiful girls, two whom attend Little Lions. She earns $3.50 per day working in a factory that she walks to, 1.5 hours each way, every day.

Josephine is the mother of a young boy who attends Little Lions. They survive by selling sandwiches on the street, earning $5 per day after her costs.