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To achieve MDGs, educate women

By Kwamboka Oyaro

As the heads of states' meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in New York got underway, I thought of a family I recently visited in Majengo slums, about 2km to the east of Nairobi city centre, that struggles to feed its five members the same way another family I had seen about ten years earlier in the same slums did.

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