Kibera: Michael's story

[fenriswolf6699]

How can people survive under such conditions???? This is so bad.

[dwmulwa]

Michael you are my hero! keep on doing what you do and lets all change this world bit by bit

[daniells71]

It broke my heart when he said that people have to contemplate whether or not they should buy malarial drugs for Ksh20/$.25c or just stay @ home and hope not to die. The flip side of this is just a walking distance away in the suburbs, a 20yr old Kenyan kid is headed out to the club in daddy's Range Rover and will spend more money in a night than some of these guys will see in a year. Shame Kenya, Shame!

[Jakaloke]

Poverty can be changed by doing exactly what he's doing. By bringing attention to the plight of these people, and hundreds of millions of others like them, it makes us wealthy westerners ask ourselves what we can do to help. Sometimes a few good questions are all that's needed for a solution.

[HumanRights60Years]

Poverty is a worldwide problem, which does not start outside our western boundaries. As I see it, a way to reduce poverty is by making people aware that there is poverty around us, and that is not something that has to exist for other people to lead a happy life. You might be surprised how many people hold this belief.. Poverty is the burden of hundreds of years of neglecting human rights. It is the people living now who have to make the difference!

[flobbit25]

mabye countries should stop spending billons on war and give them some >.>

[Yuri92001]

Often though throwing money at the problem even doesn't help. It is often more complex than that. Something like microfinancing perhaps is better...small loans that one has to pay off. But I would never just spend billions and give it away though as THAT can cause more problems in the long run than it helps and I think that is an important thing to keep in mind.

[flobbit25]

yes, exaclty! i know just giveing them billions wont help much but spending it on such things as health & education facilities will benefit them more. I see that alot more productive than spending money to kill people, although we do need to defend your own countries i often think way to much money is going in to it. i also did some reading there about microfunancing and yes we need to do more things like that!

[gigiplaysbass]

Poverty is something that can be changed, he says. That's right but I think it's a hard way to solve that problem. I don't even know how. I wish I could help in a way.

[kenlucas77]

meaningful vid