When I was 6 i lived for a while in kibera and wheew. Poverty is the evilest of all evils man. I had a friend who was my age & she had 2 younger siblings. Her mother was reeeeeeally irresponsible and was never home. I used to think it was so funny that my friend would wash the /1

younger ones by dipping them in cold water in this big steel basin for like 1 minute and call that a bath. I now remember her doing that and literally cry. I don& #39;t think I& #39;ve ever seen anything sadder. Had this other friend whose mum separated with their dad. The mum got /2

really drunk one day and burnt the dad& #39;s photos in front of the kids omg. This isn& #39;t particular to the ghetto, but the way things were set up in that hood nothing was private and the mother caused quite a spectacle. I& #39;m sure something died in that little girl& #39;s heart that day. /3

I remember hearing of mothers giving their newborns drops of alcohol to make them sleep for days so they could go do their thing. I particularly remember this woman beating up some man (think it was her man) and saying & #39;unajua nilitombwa ndio nipate pesa ya hiyo karae& #39;https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht"> I& #39;d /4

never heard that word so I asked my auntie what it meanthttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht"> oh. I also remember hearing noises from the hood that I now recognize as sexhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht">The ghetto is a fucking sad place man.

Had the pleasure of experiencing both urban and rural poverty though, so my catalogue is broad https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💀" title="Schädel" aria-label="Emoji: Schädel"> /5

When i lived in shagz we were better off and I went to private school and had new toughees every year and a puppy and every time my mum came from nai she brought me cream doughnuts from bakers inn and storybooks from Savani& #39;s. I was sort of the resident rich kid in shagz /6

(although we& #39;d kopa food from the shops like everybody else) Ah man. Ushago poverty is something else. Kids wouldn& #39;t wear shoes to school and their uniforms were tattered and mind you this is mt kenya back in the day so mornings were sooo fucking cold you couldn& #39;t see past the /7

fog and your fingernails would fucking turn purple and you couldn& #39;t move them. They didn& #39;t serve lunch at their school and most couldn& #39;t carry lunch bc there was no food at home. They& #39;d listen to what we had for lunch at my school and sneer and say that it sounded disgusting /8

but I now recognize it as envy. Used to cry when they said that lol. And they& #39;d call our school bus & #39;makorofia& #39; (avocado) idk why it made me cry though lmaoooo.

I think about how fortunate I am to live the life I live now. That I can sit here and worry about feminism /9

& sexuality & gender fluidity & chakras. Lol. That I even know what those terms mean in the first place? Most of my childhood friends didn& #39;t go past form 2. I have one who was in prison when I was doing my kcpe omghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💀" title="Schädel" aria-label="Emoji: Schädel"> I am so so grateful for my life and ik I escaped so I /10

could make a difference.

Ik I& #39;m talking to myself here but if you ever come across this thread please learn to be grateful for the little things and please please help out whenever you can. The world needs all the help it can get https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Setzling" aria-label="Emoji: Setzling">