How is life in Nairobi?

Please help me with this question it's a case study of life in a nairobi shanty town...?

• Rural to Urban migration is a complex issue. Explain why this is an issue and suggest ways to improve the way of life of people living in the shanty town of Kibera. Evaluate the solutions you have suggested. You need to include: infomation about the difficulties of living in Kibera and describe ways in which life in the city could be made better for those who move to the shanty towns.

• Answer:

  People move from rural areas to urban areas in countries such as Kenya to look for work. In the rural areas, the only way to support oneself is agriculture and the vast majority of rural inhabitants are subsistence farmers (the just grow enough to feed themselves) which makes it very difficult to make any money, for example to buy clothes. For this reason, many people leave their homes and move to large cities such as Nairobi in search of work. However, they can't afford to live in a nice house, and jobs even in Nairobi are scarce and so they end up living in the slums, and finding any job they can (some even will resort to searching through the rubbish for things to sell). The massive influx of people with such low incomes makes it very difficult to deal with - they cant afford decent housing, so shanty towns are built to house them. But these areas have very poor facilities (i.e. no health centre, no sewage disposal, no roads and houses are little more than shacks made out of whatever materials people can find). Obvious problems in shanty towns are things such as health problems due to overcrowding and open sewers, malnutrition as people cannot afford to eat well, low uptake of vaccinations due to poor access to health care (thus resulting in spread of disease). Other problems such as crime, violence, alcohol abuse etc can be found. How to make this better...? Well if there was an easy answer to that, then perhaps the slums would not be as they are now. However, Kenya is a poor country and it is very difficult for them to improve conditions in the slums. By setting up health clinics in the slums, health education programmes and access to clean water we can help prevent disease. Also the provision of more jobs may help, although this is not easy! Hope this helps you understand it a bit more