KENYA: How to Ride a Matatu

Mike and Anne Howard did something we think is pretty cool. Newlyweds, they set out on the ultimate of all honeymoons, traveling to 25 countries for over 500 days... documenting it all on their website Honeytrek.com. Here are their insights into traveling by minibus (Matatu) in Africa, where they traveled overland for 100 days, through South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya, and they "didn't feel unsafe once." Nice!

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Changing the World in 3 Hours

Watch what 22 year old Evan Mula, from Boston, did with just a bit of time. He and 32 of his friends raised $10,000 in 3 hours to build a school in Kenya through Change Heroes and Free The Children. This is his trip to see that vision emerge in reality.

Learn more at Change Heroes

KENYA: Growing Up in a Megaslum

What is it like to live in one of the world's most infamous slums? Joseph Djemba shares his experiences as a street boy growing up in Kibera, Kenya's notorious shantytown, which is home to an estimated 235,000 to 270,000 people. Djemba is the central character in "Megaslumming," a book by Share The World’s Resources, which explores how the impoverished informal settlement of Kibera came into existance and documents what life is like for slum-dwellers in Africa.

Learn more at Share The World's Resources

GLOBAL: 28 Millimetres Project

Meet French artist and TED Prize winner JR whose public art installations in France, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Brazil, Israel, and Palestine encourage people to see the world in a new way. INSIDE OUT is his participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. “Stand up for what you care about” JR says, “and together we’ll turn the world INSIDE OUT.”

Take your picture and submit it to insideoutproject.net

KENYA: The Supply + KevJumba

By The Supply Education Group

Two hundred and fifty thousand children are born in slums each day all over the world, and kids born in slums are 5 times less likely to attend secondary school than children raised outside of slums. The Supply builds schools in slums and, through education, empowers students to ignite transformation in their communities. In this video, The Supply volunteer Kevjumba visits a slum school in Kenya where he discovers that “even though there is poverty, there’s no use being sad.”

To learn more visit thesupply.org