EDCLUB Huruma: Enabling Disadvantaged Children to Learn Using Broadband

Mji wa Huruma slum lies on a slope between Karura Forest and the affluent Runda estate in Nairobi.  This crowded informal settlement is home to about 4,000 people. The slum hosts one of the most innovative learning initiatives in Kenya, known as EDCLUB.

EDCLUB is an acronym for “Enabling Disadvantaged Children to Learn Using Broadband”. In Huruma, it operates from a 15x6 ft room with 15 networked computers. Every evening after school, children aged between 7 and 14 years go to learn using the internet and to interact with their mentors from England via Skype. Each computer is shared between 3-4 children.