Images of mathare
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After lunch, crumbles get all over Silvia's mouth, hands and clothes. This is their only meal of the day.

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LPP's Daycare Center is located in Mathare slum, protecting small kids in slum from rape and other accidences when their guardians are away for work.

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The teacher in Daycare Center is a college student. She is half-voluntary with a small salary.

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The Daycare Center is also facing a shortage of capital. To save money, teachers and the kids made most realia by themselves.

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Daycare Center provides free lunch to slum children. What it can provide depends on what kind of sponsor they get that day.

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Before lunch, the cook gathers all kids together to pray.

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The most silent time of the Daycare Center is noon break, when the kids are sleeping.

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During outdoor time, these kids don't have much games to play, so they have to creat some, like jumping over firewoods one by one.

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In the Daycare Center, kids need to wash hands before meal. The Daycare Center tries to inpart not only English words but also good habbit to them.

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Without running water, teachers pour water carried back from water station to a contain with a tap on it, which can keep water trickling for hand washing.

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Some tyres and an slack football are the only toys the kids have in the Daycare Center.

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Some older children living in Mathare sometimes come to Daycare after school to play swing, which is a "luxurious" and interesting facility in the slum.

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The Daycare Center is surrounded by garbage, but at least it's a shelter for these slum kids who don't have guardian's care in the daytime.

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Silvia is in her uncle's arm. Her parents left her and her twin sister Carol when they were only 6-month. Now she is suffering from skin disease.

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The twins usually wear same cloth for the whole week. They share their clothes, and with their brother, too.

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The Daycare Center is limited in space and many falicities, including dishware. The twins always have to have their lunch placed in a bason on floor.

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As the children usually have only very few clothes, the ones that they do have wear of very fast.

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The bedroom of the Twins' family. The 9-member-family lives in Mathare, in a iron sheet house which has only about 30 meter-square and no window, no toilet, no running water, no electricity.

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Social workers of LPP with the twins.