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What if the biggest impact of public space wasn’t physical at all?
Before a space becomes a garden or a park or a playground, it is first something else. Sometimes it is…
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What would it take for Nairobi River to become clean & stay clean?
If cleaning a river were only about picking trash, the Nairobi River would have been spotless years ago. For decades,…
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The Fight to Be Heard: How Youth Are Demanding a Seat at Nairobi’s Climate Table
For weeks, participants have mapped floods, studied heat pockets, and walked the winding paths of Nairobi’s most climate-vulnerable neighborhoods. In…
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Graffiti and the City: What Do You See When You Look at the Walls?
In Nairobi, graffiti lives in two worlds. To some, it is vandalism: noise, color, and chaos on public walls. To…
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What Happens When Good Ideas Meet Weak Execution: Lessons from Youth City’s Disqualified Teams
What happens when good ideas meet weak execution? In the Youth City Changing Faces Competition, young people are learning to…
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Nairobi River is dying, but it’s not from what you think
For over two decades, Nairobi has spent billions trying to clean the river that runs through its heart. Yet, every…
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400 Million Dollars Later: What Changed for Nairobi River?
For more than twenty years, Nairobi has poured time, money and promises into cleaning its river.At least fifteen major clean-up…
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How Are Youth-Led Community Groups Strengthening Community Resilience With Climate Change Adaptation Plans?
It is week three of the Climate Change Adaptation Academy, and things have taken a major shift. Do you remember…
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This Is How Young People Are Changing The Way Public Finance Systems Are Managed
In many neighborhoods across Nairobi, young people face the same problems every day: roads that flood, playgrounds and parks that…
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The Challenges You Don’t See When Youth Transform Nairobi’s Public Spaces
It started as a simple community walk, but by the end, it felt like stepping into the future of Nairobi’s…