Eight Ugandan Members of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday toured Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) programmes in Kibera in their benchmarking visit to see how to address urbanization challenges.
As the sun sets on the narrow streets of Africa's largest informal settlement, children hurry to change from daily clothes into pointe shoes and other ballet gear. Fifteen-year-old Brenda Branice is among the dancers and can’t hide her joy. “I am happy to be a ballerina,” Branice said.
Towering models parade down a three-metre (10-foot) high catwalk overlooking the rusting tin roofs of Kibera, the Kenyan capital's biggest urban slum.The audience, mostly young, loudly acclaims the models and reserves a noisy welcome for designers who come out on to the catwalk.
The Council said in a statement that EU member states would choose between a binding target of 14.5% reduction of greenhouse gas intensity in transport from the use of renewables by 2030.
To my dismay, I realized the politics in Spain are just as polarized as those in the United States. But because I was traveling in a country with a longer history, I could connect to a time and place free of conflict.