Kenya: Pope Francis to meet with slum dwellers in Nairobi

(Vatican Radio) On his last day in Kenya's capital Nairobi Pope Francis will spend time with people who live in the city slums.

He is scheduled to visit the large Kangemi slum, which like so many other slums in Nairobi, is located on the outskirts of the city. 

Kangemi in fact is one of two hundred slums in Nairobi; it is home to over 150,000 people congested in a small valley with steep slopes rolling down to the Nairobi River. 

Pope Francis will be hosted by an Irish Jesuit who leads the Parish of St. Joseph the Worker, working with the poor and the marginalized.

But people from other slums will also be at Kangemi to welcome Pope Francis, including some of the children who live in the Mathari slum, struggling every day with violence, abuse and addiction to illegally produced alcoholic substances – given them at a very young age by single mothers and guardians to quell hunger pains and make them sleep.

Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni spoke to Titus Mwangi, a co-founder of the Pan-Nairobi Mathari Children’s Fund that helps children to change their lives through education and training.

Listen to the interview: