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Resilient Hopeful Humans
The insights on this site come directly from conversations with Gioto residents and community leaders, gathered by the Cabbage & Crayons team.
Resilient Hopeful Humans
The insights on this site come directly from conversations with Gioto residents and community leaders, gathered by the Cabbage & Crayons team.
Gioto dumpsite in Central Kenya is the main dumpsite for Nakuru City. Over 1000 people of all ages live in and around the dumpsite. Their homes are literally built on or are adjacent to piles of garbage. The dump serves as their main resource for food, clothes, building materials, and income. Adults and adolescents rummage through the trash to pick out materials of value to sell for less than $1 a day.
Due to political conflicts, forceful displacement, and extreme poverty, people began seeking refuge in the Gioto dumpsite in the early 1970’s. Local leaders are trying their best, yet, their limitless hearts battle with their limited resources and the community remains with little opportunity and a lot of stigma.
The usual travesties that exist anywhere in our world are multiplied without resources and power.
We have seen this truth, especially, for the sick, the elderly, the women, and the young ones.
It is hard to fathom children playing barefoot amongst needles and rotting food, but it is their daily reality in the Gioto dumpsite.
Thanks to so many collaborations and supporters many children have been given the opportunity to attend school. Education and hope usually brings their souls back to uplift their family and community.
Barriers such as studying at night in the dumpsite with no electricity, the need to support themselves or their family, and exploitation through drugs and sex, has caused many children to quit school or graduate with little opportunity to go to college successfully.
This precious community longs for a better chance for their children and for one another. They are grateful to God for the life they are given and would love a chance to thrive. Our school project is needed, researched, and a desired support for their community.
We have been given the chance to help fan the flame of hope for the Gioto residents.
Will you join us?
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