If you ever wondered where those bins outside gas stations and shopping malls where you drop off clothes and shoes go, you now know. They end up being sold on the street.
Mostly Christian but it's about 11% Muslim. Religion is a major part of life here, even the biggest sinners go to church every sunday.
The main problems are alcohol and glue. Drugs are too expensive for most people to afford, there is weed here but it's the schwaggiest schwag. Alcohol is super cheap, I picked up a little 250ml bottle of whisky yesterday for $1.40. A beer at a decent bar or club is $1.50-$2.20
They have the albinos in a boarding school of their own so that nobody chops them up.
They just killed one of the top Al-Shabaab leaders so reprecussions are expected, especially because it's Ramadan.
I teach, help with medical work and administrative work.
Everything here is a parody of how it works in the West, especially when it comes to administrative work. For example: we're trying to get a missionary team booked in a hotel here and need 30ish rooms. The hotel does not have a computer system, and frequently overbooks because they don't write down who's going to be in what room per day, they'll just write down on the arrival date how many people are coming. Every year people come they end up getting split between multiple hotels because they can't figure out a better system. A co-worker did their books for free and designed a new system which would be much easier and stop them from overbooking (literally just writing down who will be there for every day they're there) but it was too complex and they reverted to the old system.
They do have trash removal in the slums. When the piles get too big, the government sends out workers to light them on fire and supervise. They hire way too many people for a simple job so it's not uncommon to see 15-20 workers watching a single fire burn while they sit around.
The government uses those people's information and IDs to register them to vote in counties outside where they live, and use that information to commit voter fraud.
About 1/3 roads in the city are paved. In the slums, none are, it takes them months to repair a simple hole in the dirt.
They're pretty content with the minimum. I have more pictures but can't upload them right now, maybe some other time.
An inter-school singing/dancing competition where they performed a lot of traditional African dancing/music. I'd love to post a video but it says what school I work at and I don't want to get doxxed too much.
People will live in a one-room mudhut with 6-8 people in the same room, we deliver food and medicine to children deep in the slums where this happens, it's very common.
Also they don't have toilets, so have shared holes in the ground they squat over. I'm not a slav so I don't have the endurance to actually use one.
slow but kind
I actually feel safer here as the only white person for miles than I do in a black neighborhood in the US. White privilege is real here, it's great.