Following steady economic growth, Kenya has been classified as a lower middle-income country since 2014. Despite promising approaches, in addition to corruption in the country, a number of factors have unfortunately led to a renewed increase in poverty in the country in recent years. In addition to the coronavirus pandemic, extreme weather conditions with pronounced droughts and severe flooding, such as in April/May 2024, as well as steadily rising food prices have led to setbacks in growth and once again highlighted the wide gap between rich and poor. According to the World Bank, around 35% of the Kenyan population lived below the poverty line in 2023. This means that 35% of people in Kenya have to live on less than 2 euros a day. Due to the sharp rise in food prices (the inflation rate was recently over 6%), this is often barely enough to buy basic foodstuffs. In search of work and a way out of poverty, more and more young people are being driven from the countryside to the big cities. However, as there are hardly any jobs available for young people here either, the majority (approx. 85%) work in the informal sector as day laborers, cab drivers or craftsmen. In Nairobi, the country’s capital, with a population of 4.4 million (as at 2019), around 60% of the population live in slums, of which there are around 200 in the entire city.