The Halcrow Foundation provided £10,000 funding for an ablution block to serve a community of 600 people living in Kibera, the largest slum in Sub-Saharan.

On 5 June 2007, the block was officially opened by British High Commissioner Adam Wood.
 
The eco-friendly design of the scheme received recognition at the Africities Conference held in Nairobi in late 2006. This follows a revision of the original design from a pit-latrine to a bio-latrine that will provide the local community with gas and fertilizer.

Kibera is the largest slum in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of around 0.7 million people. The community that will benefit from the ablution block is a section of Kibera known locally as Gatwekera, which has a population of 70,000 people.

The project is helping to provide piece of mind to residents, who were too afraid to leave their homes at night, as well as improving their health and environment.

Project sponsor Robert Clark will work with a local non-governmental organisation called the Umande Trust to implement works. The scheme is part of a larger project called Gatwekwera Total Sanitation and Hygiene Access that aims to strengthen the capacity of community based organisations to improve access to adequate, safe and affordable water and sanitation services.

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