Gatwekera

{{Short description|Neighborhood in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya}}

Gatwekera (Gatuikira) is a part of Kibera slum in Nairobi. Its population likely exceeds 70,000.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wsup.com/whatwedo/gatwekera.htm |title=WSUP - Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Projects: Gatwekera, Kenya |access-date=2010-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718122127/http://www.wsup.com/whatwedo/gatwekera.htm |archive-date=2011-07-18 |url-status=dead }} Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor is active there. Many of its residents are Luo.{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/76248/kenya-angela-my-children-need-start-school-were-stuck-camp|title=Angela: "My children need to start school but we're stuck in the camp"|date=January 15, 2008|website=The New Humanitarian}} Médecins Sans Frontières used to run a health center there.{{Cite journal|title=Providing HIV care in the aftermath of Kenya's post-election violence Medecins Sans Frontieres' lessons learned January – March 2008|first1=Tony|last1=Reid|first2=Ian|last2=van Engelgem|first3=Barbara|last3=Telfer|first4=Marcel|last4=Manzi|date=December 4, 2008|journal=Conflict and Health|volume=2|issue=1|page=15|doi=10.1186/1752-1505-2-15|pmid = 19055803|pmc = 2634762 |doi-access=free }} Other parts of Kibera include Laini Saba, Lindi, Makina, Kianda, Mashimoni, Soweto East, Kisumu Ndogo and Siranga.{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr32/005/2009/en/ |title=Kenya: The unseen majority: Nairobi's two million slum-dwellers |accessdate=2016-12-04 }}{{Cite web |url=https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/bitstream/handle/123456789/19466/URN_NBN_fi_jyu-200901201029.pdf?sequence=1 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720190505/https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/bitstream/handle/123456789/19466/URN_NBN_fi_jyu-200901201029.pdf?sequence=1 |archive-date=2011-07-20 |url-status=dead }}