A new charity has been set up to raise money to bring a group of dancers from a slum in Nairobi to Britain, and to extend the project to reach as many young people as possible.
Mathare, Nairobi’s second largest slum, until recently had a crime rate of 80%. With no work or schooling and nothing to do except hang around street corners, most young people get involved in theft, drugs and prostitution, usually around the age of 13 or 14. Murder is common and HIV/AIDS is rampant.
A fantastic project has been set up by local people to change all this. Its aim is to engage the youth in activities, provide work and train them to earn for themselves, rehabilitate drug users, prostitutes and criminals and encourage young people to take a full part in society. Already, with community policing by ex-gangsters, they claim to have reduced the crime rate from 80% to just 5%.
Read more at www.walkagainstcrime.org