United States Marine Rye Barcott describes his friendship with a widowed nurse, Tabitha Atieno Festo, and a community organizer, Salim Mohamed, that developed into a combined effort to create the organization Carolina for Kibera, which promotes participatory development.
The husband-and-wife authors describe meeting and falling in love in the slums of Kenya where their organization, Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), has created the first tuition-free school for girls and provided health care, clean water, and economic empowerment programs.
A memoir of Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner, two young people from very different cultures who joined forces to build a life together, and run a school in Kibera, Kenya for girls.
Beatrice, a thirteen-year-old orphan who lives with her older brother in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, describes her life at home and at school, including the daily walk, the overcrowded classrooms, housework, and her hope of becoming a nurse.
