Kibera Slum Tour with Kevin: Meet the Community

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Duration4h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Walk Kibera's streets and meet the children Kevin brought off them

A guided tour of Kibera led by Kevin, a longtime resident who rescued street children and established an orphanage school in the slum. The tour visits the bone workshop, Kevin's house and family, the landfill, train tracks and main street market over four hours, with a local English-speaking guide and hotel pickup included. Your booking fee goes directly to support the community and send children to school.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Kibera with Kevin

Visit African bone workshop
Tour orphanage school
See Kevin’s house and family
Walk landfill area
Walk train track
Explore main street market

The Experience

Kevin has lived his whole life in Kibera and knows the place the way only someone rooted there can—not as a backdrop, but as home. The tour moves through six distinct stops: the African bone workshop where craftspeople work by hand, the orphanage school Kevin founded after rescuing children from the streets, his own house and family, the landfill where waste gets sorted and salvaged, the train track that cuts through the settlement, and the main street market where the daily rhythm of the neighborhood plays out. Each stop is a place Kevin can explain from the inside, with stories and context that come from actually living there.

The four-hour walk is built around what Kevin wants to show you, not a scripted sequence. You move at a pace that lets you see how people work and live—the bone carvers at their craft, the children at school, the market vendors, the informal economy that keeps the settlement functioning. Kevin's presence changes what you're looking at: he introduces you to people he knows, points out details a visitor would miss, and answers questions as they come up. The orphanage school is the heart of the tour; the children Kevin rescued consider him Big Brother, and seeing that relationship is the reason many people book this tour.

Hotel pickup is included, so you don't arrange transport to the starting point. The guide speaks English. Children are welcome from age seven. Food and drinks are not included, so plan accordingly if the four hours will span a meal. The money from your booking goes back into the community—directly supporting the orphanage school and the children Kevin has brought into it.

What’s included

A local English-speaking guide who lives in Kibera.
hotel pickup and drop-off.
access to the bone workshop, orphanage school, Kevin's house, the landfill, train tracks and main street market.
your booking fee goes to support the orphanage school and community.

Good to know

Easy physical levelNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problemsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Kevin’s Kibera Slum Tours

Is this one for you?The four-hour commitment fits a half-day slot without eating into the rest of your itinerary. Book this if you want to see how a settlement actually works from someone who lives there, not a surface pass through—Kevin's relationships with people in Kibera and his connection to the orphanage school are what make the stops mean something.