Mombasa slum group beats odds to better life

Tudor residents queue to get water from water tank at Tudor in Mombasa. Samba Foundation buys water and sells to the area residents at a low price. [PHOTO OMONDI ONYANGO/STANDARD]

KENYA: Two water vendors engage three youths in a bitter exchange of words at the Moroto Slums in Tudor, Mombasa County.

When push comes to shove and the situation threatens to degenerate into violence, the leader of the youths wearing black t-shirts emblazoned with the word “Samba Foundation”, intervenes.