… and improve basic services for 100,000 households. Our guides were local representatives from SDI Kenya – the Kenya affiliate of IIED’s … assistant. As we made our way into Mukuru, an SDI colleague asked me how, based on my first impressions, the slum compared with others I’d … open sewage running down the middle. The path led to an expanse of water – foul smelling, full of rubbish and apparently stagnant. Later we …