Rehabllitation Programme: N. C • C • K •. Experience In The Dandora Community Development Project, Nairobi
Abstract
In December 1968, the NCCK came to learn about Kaburini
Squatters vil.lage. Kaburini is a SWahili word which means
"by the cemetery". A community of about 400 families
illegally settled behind the Moslem cemetery off Quarry
Road, near Kariakor.
A day before Christmas in 1968, a fire broke out in
one of the houses. It spread rapidly and brought half
of the village to ashes. Six months later another fire
broke out and eliminated the remaining half of the
village. The city Council refused to give the community
permission to erect new shanties in place of what had been
destroyed. This state of affairs went on for a few weeks
until the situation elicited public outcry. The City
Council authority felt that the families affected should
go back to where they originally came from.
A few families moved mostly to another squatter village
but about 300 families were stranded on the spot. Finally
the City Council decided to move these people to Karura
Forest, a distance of 8 miles from the City Centre.
Initially the people were provided with fifteen tents,
food, two tanks of water which were filled every day by
the City council trucks and two blocks of pit latrine.
This was a temporary and expensive measure, to give the
City Council time to think of a more permanent arrangement.
It was at this time that the NCCK carne with a proposal
to Nairobi City Council about a permanent rehabilitation
programme. The NCCK offered to raise £23,000 on condition
that the City Council would raise £10,000 which would be
mainly used to prepare a piece of land for site and service
purposes. As a sites and service programme to house
Mathare Valley squatters was already underway, it was
agreed that t.hzee. hundred plots should be reserved for
EX-Kaburini Squatters while the £10,000 would be used
for redevelopment of other squatter villages near Mathare
Valley. The money raised by the NCCK and NCC was to be
used as follows:
Publisher
University Of Nairobi
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