Kisumu Slum Tours

• 4 Days-3 Nights-Nairobi City Pro-Poor Tourism Adventures
• 2 Hours - 4 Hours-Charity Slum Tours / Excursions
• 9am-1 pm-Kibera Slums tour

Nairobi City Pro-Poor Tourism Trip - Kibera Slum Visit

Highlights: These are philanthropic tours or Charity slum tours to visit the poor in various parts of Kenya. They are referred to as pro poor tours or charity tours into the slum areas. The clients are requested to make donations or adopt a child in the slums and assist in paying the school fees if possible. They cover Nairobi and Kisumu cities regions in Kenya.

Highlights: This is a three days community based pro poor tourism package which covers the main urban poor areas within Nairobi city council. You will start this tour from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport or from your hotel or residence within the Nairobi city centre and proceed to the various Slums as per the itinerary below:

Itinerary:

Day 1: Nairobi - Kibera Slum Tour:
Upon arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met by our tour manager who will take you to your hotel for check in. Or if you happen to be staying in Nairobi, you will be met by our tour manager who will handle your tour. Thereafter, you will be taken for a brief tour of Nairobi city before heading to the sprawling Kibera Slum. Kibera slum is considered to be the second biggest slum in sub Saharan Africa following Soweto in South Africa. while in Kibera, you will be taken to meet the HIV orphaned children's homes, the Kibera Olympic primary school and the Baraka Za Ibrahim School then to Tunza Children's centre where you will see how crowded the class rooms are, due to free primary school system, the day to day activity of the residents, the type of housing and the unavailability of sanitary facilities, lack of normal feeding timetable, the flowing sewage and the businesses undertaken by the local residents.

You will return to your residence dinner and overnight after the daylong tour of Kibera slums.

Day 2: Nairobi-Mukuru Slum and Kiambui Slum Tour:
After breakfast, you will be driven to the Nairobi's industrial area, then into the Mukuru Kayaba where you will visit the local NGO center which has a school, feeding center and the women group activities in the slum. Lunch is taken at a hotel in the industrial Area. In the afternoon, proceed to Kiambiu slum next to the Kenya Air Force base in Eastleigh, here you will meet the slum dwellers, those who do not go to the Nairobi central business district, the primary school and the community leaders who will brief you on the daily chores of these slums. Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 3-Nairobi- Mathare Slum and Korokocho slum:

After breakfast, you will be driven to the Mathare slum where you will see the new housing development project in the slum. Visit the drug addicts' rehabilitation center; the school for the HIV orphaned children, and the bank of Nairobi River. Lunch is taken at the nearby Utalii Hotel.
After Lunch proceed to the Korokocho slum where you will be amazed with the number of the roaming children in the slum. Visit the local NGO's poverty rehabilitation project, the Catholic secondary school, the Market , the local police station and then proceed to the Nairobi city refuse dumping site in Dandora where you will see the biggest heap of refuse in Africa which acts as a source of food and as well as income to the poor who scavenge there every day.

Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 4:Nairobi-Departure:

After breakfast depart for the Jommo Keynote International Airport for your flight to your next destination.

End of tour.
(Note: This tour can be combined with the other regular Safaris to the wildlife lodges or any others).
Cost:
Price per person in US$ 1Pax 2Pax 3Pax 4Pax 5Pax 6Pax 7Pax SRS
Validity: 01 Jan – 31 Dec, 250 150 120 100 100 100 100 N/A
Cost Includes:

- Transport to the Slums from your hotel or residence and back
- Tour guiding fee
-Security team fee while in the slums

Cost excludes:
- Donations to the project(s) that you may decide.
-Tips to the Tour Guides and porters.

Package Cost Shall Be Provided According To Group Numbers and Period of Travel

Kibera Slums Tour

Highlights: "This is a four hour Charity excursion tour of Kibera slums. This tour is recommended for any visitor, business traveler(s), church missionary, a journalist(s), and a business executive who would like to have a quick feel of slum life in Kenya. Or it can be done before or after a normal safari as part of a City Tour. This excursion is famous for those who would like to visit Kibera slums as first visitors and it is preferred for both the foreigners and the Kenyan populace who have never visited the Kibera Slums or those who will want a repeat of the Kibera Slums"

Itinerary:

This is an escorted tour which starts at 9am from your destination / hotel from the city centre and goes through the Ngong road past Uchumi Supermarket, turn left just next to the Nakumatt Supermarket. Pass by the DO headquarters through to Bombolulu stage where you start to descend into the three (3) kilometer Main Kibera slum road. Visit the Soweto Village homesteads, and then continue to the Curio (handcrafts) Workshop where you will witness how those living in the Kibera slums are innovative in making ornaments out of animal bones. Continue with visits of the Nursery schools and pass by to see the Water vender and the Shower shop as you meet other slum dwellers mingling with you as they carry on with their daily chores.
Turn right past the roadside fish mongers into the Biogas plant, the only one of its kind in Africa which will use human waste as its raw material in the production of Biogas which will be used as cooking gas as well as lighting about 200 households once it is accomplished and commissioned.

Proceed to the Baraka Za Ibrahim School which is a charitable school, run with the donations from well wishers and caters for lower and upper levels of education starting from Nursery to Secondary level. It has boarding facilities for few Orphaned boys and girls, a small kitchen and a laboratory not to mention a ramshackle over crowded staff room in the centre of this tiny overcrowded institution.

Proceed to the other homesteads including those of the tour guides and security team members and witness their life styles in the slums. Pass by a popular pub within the slum for a drink, if you so wish, and pass over the bridge unto the Railway line. You may be lucky to witness the train pass on the railway line amidst the tin roofed houses with human beings and animals (goats, dogs, chickens crossing the railway line at the same time). Cross the railway line into the Centre housing the sick and share your moment with these deserving mothers and children of the slum.

Proceed to Tunza Children's' Centre which is an Orphaned Children's' Home. In this home you will be able to see the devastation of HIV / Aids on the slum populace and the overcrowding of Orphaned children in a small centre on a 0.01 acre of a plot. Meet Mama Tunza - Timina Khasiala who runs the centre from well wishers' donations.

End the tour with your decision as to where you will donate the profits of your tour. Our tour manager and tour guide will then hand over to you the profits for you to donate to a deserving project / activity of your choice.

Return to your hotel ready for lunch.

End of tour.
(Note: This tour can be combined with the other regular Safaris to the wildlife lodges or any others).
Cost:
Price per person in US$ 1Pax 2Pax 3Pax 4Pax 5Pax 6Pax 7Pax SRS
Validity: 01 Jan – 31 Dec, 150 100 50 50 50 50 50 N/A
Cost Includes:

- Transport to Kibera Slums from your hotel and back
- Tour guiding fee
-Security team fee

Cost excludes:
- Donations to the project(s) that you may decide.
-Tips to the Tour Guides and porters.

Package Cost Shall Be Provided According To Group Numbers and Period of Travel