The inhabitants of one of the biggest slums in the world, Kibera in Nairobi, take part in a WFP food distribution after recent post-election violence.

KENYA
WOODLEY STADIUM, KIBERA, NAIROBI
15 Jan 2008

Kibera slum, one of the largest slums in the world, in Nairobi on 15/01/2008: 2,000 slum dwellers gather at Woodley stadium for a distribution of pulses, corn-soya blend, vegetable oil and high energy biscuits from WFP and maize donated by the Government
of Kenya following violence in the aftermath of Kenya's December 27 elections. The distribution at Woodley Stadium was one of 12 sites in the slums that received WFP and Government food on 15 and 16 January for a total of 83,000 people. These were the
second distributions in the slums by WFP -- distributions on 10 January reached an estimated 50,000 people.


Marcus Prior, WFP spokesperson: "Today the World Food Programme is distributing a second round of a one ration to fifty thousand people in Nairobi slums. People have been very badly affected by the crisis here in Kenya, particularly the poorest living here in
Nairobi, in the slums. Sixty percent of Nairobi’s population live in the slums, and sixty percent of them live on less than a dollar a day."