Tag: Kibera
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Handmade craft from Kibera
We have lots of these wonderful cards (in the UK) now, if you’d like to buy some – either Christmas cards or every day note cards – 16 different designs on blue, green, red or white paper. All handmade and signed on the back by the artists who are all residents of Kibera in Nairobi,…
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Synergy
I wrote about “AI Crossover” some months ago after reading Jeff Clune’s paper. Since then we’ve had the Second Frontier Development Lab with NASA & the SETI Institute, which included Adam Cobb, a PhD student in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, who has carried out work tracking lion footprints with artificial intelligence [paper]. I…
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WASH in Kibera
My good friend, Liz, runs the non-profit Sadili Oval Sports Academy, a safe haven on the edge of Kibera, Africa’s largest and poorest slum. Sadili is a Kiswahili term, meaning “well-being”. Liz’s blogpost is here and I’ve highlighted a few points. Several AVIF volunteers have spent time here and even our Brazilian hosts have visited. This is volunteer,…
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Bridging the world
I am so stupidly excited. So much is going on that I don’t know where to start but the journey will take us right round the world. While the craziness ensues with KO2 rattling cages to effect change, much bigger projects are spawning which may well enable us to rise way above and match the…
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Rastas and beads
Photojournalist and volunteer Anu is currently in the idyllic community of Uhundha, on the shores of Lake Victoria, western Kenya, far far away from the hustle and bustle of Nairobi. Before she left the metropolis, however, she met with many other travelers, one of whom introduced her to the Shiriki <to share> organisation. Her wonderful blog…