Showing posts with label kibera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kibera. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

New Jewellery Catalogue available!




Have a look to the catalogue of the new pieces created by the women of Kibera!  

Enjoy the video!





Where's Kibera?

Want to know the exact location of Kibera?

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Kibera (Nubian: Forest or Jungle) is a division of Nairobi Area, Kenya, and neighbourhood of the city of Nairobi, located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city centre. It's the largest slum in Nairobi, and the second largest urban slum in Africa. The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census reports Kibera's population as 170,070, contrary to previous estimates of one or two million people.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Who we are?

Women of Kibera is a non-profit NGO born with the intend to empower women from Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa, and help them to become economically self-suficient selling their handmade jewellery and handicrafts.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Introducing the blog...

Hi everybody! Wellcome to our new blog! We have created this supportive meeting place, to release the amazing work of women from Kibera (Nairobi) .

This blog is part of a project to help women to gain economic independence.





If you want to know more about our organization and projects, please take a look to our wiki page here.