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Posted December 15, 2010
In Eastleigh’s poorest area, children use a path covered with mud and sewage.
A little boy makes a face to the amusement of onlooking women. To an outsider, the poorest parts of Eastleigh are a confusing labyrinth of makeshift dwellings and businesses.
Children walk through Eastleigh, a community in Nairobi, Kenya.
A woman sells a popular local dish of meat and vegetables.
Out of desperation, the poorest of Eastleigh pick through mounds of trash for anything useful to sell or eat.
A woman and girl walk next to mud and sewage in Eastleigh’s central area. In the central and northern parts of Eastleigh, the people are not as desperate and some are even wealthy.
This man is selling organ meats at a busy spot in Eastleigh’s poorer area.
A residential area of northern Eastleigh. Many Somalis live in this area and do better financially than many others in the community.
A man sits in an abandoned car in Eastleigh.
Traffic often clogs the few muddy streets of Eastleigh.
An elderly woman leaving her home in Eastleigh.
Children in front of their home in Eastleigh.
Two young Somali women in Eastleigh.
Two Somali women walking and talking as they go down the street of Eastleigh.
Somali men in Eastleigh stop and line the street for afternoon prayers.
A smiling Eastleigh woman holds a child in the door of her home.
A little girl plays in a slum’s alley.
Open sewage runs in many of Eastleigh’s streets. Almost all of the streets are unpaved. The paved streets are found in the northern part of Eastleigh, where the Somalis live.
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