Huduma Kitchens hand Kibera slum women a lifeline

Pellaa Nyangatare (left) and Ashah Adam make ugali to feed National Youth Service and Kibera cleaning cohorts at Makina in Kibera on 31/February/2015. The government has initiated Huduma Kitchen to empower women and youths in working on government projects. A plate of meal is charged shs 50.PHOTO.FIDELIS KABUNYI/STANDARD]

A group of women in Kibera are cheerful. In the last few months, they have seen their life turn around and everything generally looking up.

This is because something unexpected happened. There was a government decision to clean up the slum and all of a sudden National Youth Service was all over the place. That was November last year.