@NASIMNASIM What's "bull"? That they have little to nil public infrastructure? "why are they in this position" Why don't you do some research? You have this tool at your disposal called the 'internet', which the vast majority of the world's population do not have. Get off your privileged lazy ass and do some research rather than just sit in front of your computer screen wondering stupidly about why life is hard for most of the people in this world.
@mayers25 No "quality service"? How about "no service" period. If you take any neighbourhood in a North American city, deprive it of any sort of funding involving waste collection, disposal, sanitary works, it would look 100 times worse than this. Hell, most North Americans can barely survive a municipal garbage strike that last for more than a few weeks. Imagine -forever-.
@NASIMNASIM Imagine if your neighbourhood had absolutely no garbage collection, and no landfill to dispose the garbage even if your community could muster a volunteer force to collect them.
Nasimasim because there are no quality services that are reliable enough like waste disposal or recycling programs efficient enough to handle the loads of garbage Mathare can produce. Also, a feeling of helplessness mixed with living in this slum day in and day out, dealing with survival, cleanliness is not a priority.
@NASIMNASIM I know, I have been to Mathare Valley several times, and I'm going back again in March. I know these issues very well.
mayers25 3 months ago
@NASIMNASIM What's "bull"? That they have little to nil public infrastructure? "why are they in this position" Why don't you do some research? You have this tool at your disposal called the 'internet', which the vast majority of the world's population do not have. Get off your privileged lazy ass and do some research rather than just sit in front of your computer screen wondering stupidly about why life is hard for most of the people in this world.
0scottweise18 3 months ago
@mayers25 No "quality service"? How about "no service" period. If you take any neighbourhood in a North American city, deprive it of any sort of funding involving waste collection, disposal, sanitary works, it would look 100 times worse than this. Hell, most North Americans can barely survive a municipal garbage strike that last for more than a few weeks. Imagine -forever-.
0scottweise18 3 months ago
@NASIMNASIM Imagine if your neighbourhood had absolutely no garbage collection, and no landfill to dispose the garbage even if your community could muster a volunteer force to collect them.
0scottweise18 3 months ago
Nasimasim because there are no quality services that are reliable enough like waste disposal or recycling programs efficient enough to handle the loads of garbage Mathare can produce. Also, a feeling of helplessness mixed with living in this slum day in and day out, dealing with survival, cleanliness is not a priority.
mayers25 4 months ago in playlist Mathare Valley
why do they dump the garbage everywhere...what does being poor have to do with cleanliness
NASIMNASIM 5 months ago