NAIROBI ¨C Beatrice Oriyo laughed out loud when asked if there was a playground where her three children could play near her home in Kibera, Nairobi¡¯s biggest informal settlement.
¡°There¡¯s nothing like that here,¡± the 34-year-old Oriyo said by phone from the one-roomed corrugated iron home that she rents for 6,000 Kenyan Shillings ($43.18) a month.
¡°We don¡¯t even have our own toilet ¡ª we have to pay each time to use the public toilets. We bathe in the same room that is our kitchen, living room and bedroom. The idea of a playground here is like a joke,¡± she said.
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