CONTEXT
The project is located in Laini Saba Ground, the only vacant lot in the settlement, which is used by thousands of people every day on their way to work and which, depending on the moment, functions as a football field, a market and a playground for the three schools that surround it.
Panoramic view of Kibera, home to more than one million people.
Kibera's urban context consists of shacks built with adobe and zinc sheeting
Kibera is known as “Chocolate City” because of its rusty facades and roofs.
INSPIRATION
Leso or Khanga is a type of cloth used by women throughout East Africa. Its print contains a small proverb whose message accompanies them in their daily lives. There was no better tribute to all the inhabitants of Kibera than to dress the hospital in AMREF with this recognition of the courage that it takes to simply live on the streets of this magnificent community.
A typical East African book on which you can read a proverb
Interpretation of the morphology of the Leso to compose the mural SISI NI MASHUJAA (WE ARE HEROES, in Swahili)
Container facade of the AMREF centre, at the Laini Saba Ground, one of the largest public spaces in Kibera
+ INFO
+ 100 m2 of mural executed on the hospital containers AMREF in Laini Saba's field in Kibera
+ Synthetic enamel on corrugated sheet
+ The project has been made possible thanks to the help of «GHETTO YOUTH FOCUS FOUNDATION» GYFF, MADE IN KIBERA, KUBUKA MORE FOR THEM and the support of RENAULT
+ Special thanks to Geoffrey, Phlexible, Simon aka Twaani, Coco Tea, Cleophas, Denise and Warrá for being our guardian angels in the slum. To Andrea, Luis, Carra, Miriam, Raffi, Álvaro and Jose Luis for being our family in Kibera.
+ Thank you to the entire Kibera community for inspiring us and reminding us of the purest values of life.
+ Photography by Boa Mistura
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