The Nairobi Rivers Commission commissioners arrived with notebooks and practical shoes — Highrise, block H8, Seefar Apartments, a patch of ground that could hold a crowd without swallowing ankles in mud.
We walked every site on the shortlist that November morning. Voices echoed off corrugated walls; a boda-boda idled too close, then peeled away. When the dust settled, the plot near H8 and Seefar won — flat enough for tents, visible enough for people coming from different lanes.
The calendar for 18–19 November was not forgiving. Permits, partners, and portable toilets had to land in the same week — the kind of pressure that turns a phone hot against your ear.
If your organisation can supply fencing or sound for river events in Kibera, call early — we still build these days on short clocks and long hope.
