by Victoria Dormeuil | Mar 13, 2020 | Nairobi Module
When coming back from the module in Kenya, the community that affected me the most were the children and how they would manage to grow peacefully in a safe child’s environment in a city as intense and dense as Nairobi. How strong could the impact of Nairobi’s...
by Pedro Succar | Mar 13, 2020 | Nairobi Module
Please put your belt, cell phone and wallet on the tray and go through the metal detector. I landed in Nairobi!! The whole world in alert because of the new corona virus, just after leaving the finger a temperature camera filmed everyone who arrived to screen the...
by Nino Siradze | Mar 13, 2020 | Nairobi Module
Introduction During visit to Nairobi, the most remarkable thing for me, besides the unusually reddish color of the soil, were local people. During two weeks we had possibility to meet Kenyans with different experiences and various social and economic backgrounds and...
by Madhukar Varshney | Mar 13, 2020 | Nairobi Module
With reference to IGLUS Nairobi Module, we gone thru many aspects of Nairobi, Kenya and East African countries and cities. I thanks to AgaKhan University, which arranged the wonderful speakers cum experts in respective domains i.e. Economy, Housing Green spaces, Youth...
by Annet Twinokwesiga | Mar 13, 2020 | Nairobi Module
Historical Background Nairobi, locally known as ‘Enkare Nyrobi’- the Place of Cold Water, was used by pastoralists as a source of water for their cattle before being the railway supply depot in 1899 during the construction of the Uganda railway. Nairobi later became...
by Ana Laura Moreira de Souza | Mar 13, 2020 | Nairobi Module
Nairobi is a hub of trade, technology, industry, politics and finance in East Africa. It is a vibrant and diverse city, but faces complex challenges, including housing, mobility and employment. The stereotype of its urban planning and governance is to be simply...