i saw a place i'd only heard about and read about, and will try my best to articulate the surreal feelings and sights of Kibera slum
slum:
A household that lacks any one of the following five elements: access to sufficient amounts of water for family use at an affordable price, without being subject to extreme effort; access to improved sanitation, either in the form of a private toilet or a public toilet shared with a reasonable number of people; security of tenure (the rights of a tenant to hold property); housing in a permanent and adequate structure in a non-hazardous location; and, in most areas, a household requiring more than two people to share the same room. However, as housing in some cities lacks sufficient living space for middle-class households to fit this final requirement, the definition of a slum would be modified to require a lack of two of these conditions.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/glossary.html
Kibera lacked all five of these criteria, not just one.
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