From flying to flushing loos: New start for Kibera residents

Edward Uhevi, 36 years old, arrives at his new home in Kibera Soweto East Zone ‘A’, Nairobi County. Uhevi is one of the beneficiaries of the Government's Kibera Slum Upgrading Housing project that was launched 12 years ago. (PHOTOS: ELVIS OGINA/ STANDARD)

NAIROBI: When Edward Uheki came to Nairobi from Shianda, Mumias in 2002, he spent his first night in a makeshift tent made of plastic bags and sacks in Kibera slum.

“I knew no one in Nairobi and Kibera was the only famous place so I made my way there,” he says.