Member profile
- Name: Waithaka Youth Poverty Eradication WYPER
- City: NAIROBI
- Profession: YOUTH GROUP
- Development Interests: Waithaka youth poverty eradication (WYPER) WYPER’s chairperson sums up their group philosophy succinctly: “good leadership should be free of charge.” This group of young people in the poverty-stricken neighbourhood of Waithaka, where thousands of internally displaced persons camped out after the riots in Kenya in January 2008, run a small garbage collection service as their main income activity, and grow their own organic greens for sale at the local market, but have plans to expand into urban agriculture and raise rabbits and pigs on their small plots of land. They routinely organize community cleanups, and collaborate with local schools on treeplanting and environmental education activities