Waste Management Solid waste and wastewater management are everyday challenges in my neighborhood. Garbage and used water disposal continue to cripple the ‘liveability’ of the neighborhood since the 2000s. There is no designated dumpsite in my neighborhood nor is there a sewerage system. For the environmentally conscious, they depend on burning garbage as it is […]
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Play is my happy childhood memory: Through the lens of a child. It’s all fun & games as a child! A good neighborhood through the lenses of a child is one that has fun places to play, learn and socialize unlike adults whose interests could be work, proximity to that workplace and where the rent
Social spaces define how rested a neighborhood is. Fun places leave everlasting memories in children. Growing up in the 90’s, now not in this neighborhood but in this town, we had makeshift cinemas- business people were very innovative and highly entrepreneurial. Well, most of us had television sets for watching the regular soap operas ‘Maria
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Water: the liquid and fountain of life, humans, plants, animal and universe. Water… Back to adulthood, a crucial basic necessity. This is an area I am deeply passionate about and could talk hours on end or write a whole novel about. Well, when we moved to Star neighborhood in 2000, we had no water supply
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Our society is as strong as how diverse our opinions are, yet unity in progression Social Amenities You can’t separate the topic of places of worship and schools in my neighborhood and in my town, so I will cover this topic in this one article. My neighborhood has really grown in population and in diversity.
Small, big, old and new money; the fuel of development and growth of a town’s economy Small money, big money, whatever it is, in our era, the 90’s and the beginning of the millennium, it was so easy to find Ksh.5, 10 and 20 coins lying on the grass, this was equivalent to winning a
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