Around one million people live in Kibera in an area smaller than New York’s Central Park, making the Nairobi settlement Africa’s largest slum. Slum Survivors draws you into the lives of six slum dwellers – Jane, Carol, Dennis, Patrick, Abdul, and Christina – all fighting to break the cycle of abject poverty for themselves and their children through hard work, education, and determination. They struggle not only with the economic limitations of poverty, but with the many other challenges that accompany it: disease, continual unemployment, alcoholism, lack of access to education, abandonment, gender discrimination, HIV/AIDS, violence, and crime. Slum Survivors vividly illustrates the realities of urban poverty and living conditions in the slums, calling attention to issues that beg attention from policy makers in the US and around the world. 40 minutes.
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