Sep 25, 2025 | Little Sports, Stories
A Childhood in Daily Hardship Nine-year-old Fidel, a Grade 4 pupil at Shimo la Tewa Primary School in Mombasa, Kenya, is bright, energetic, and quick with a joke. But behind his lively smile lies a life marked by deprivation. He lives with his mother in a single...
Sep 19, 2025 | KRDA, Stories
Nine-year-old Mary lives with her mother and two younger brothers in a single-room home in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. Her mother picks up casual laundry work whenever she can, but the little she earns is barely enough for rent, let alone food. Most mornings...
Aug 6, 2025 | Little Sports, Stories
A Mother's Plea for Her Daughter's Future In the heart of Mombasa, Mama Farida is doing everything she can to keep her family afloat. A single mother of three daughters and a grandchild, she lives in a cramped one-room home. With her eldest daughter unwell and no...
Aug 1, 2025 | KRDA, Stories
In Kibera, Africa’s largest urban slum, fourteen-year-old Cynthia was living in a single-room home shared with her mother and four siblings. Life in Kibera is a daily struggle – no running water, sporadic electricity, and open sewers are a part of the...
Jul 10, 2025 | KRDA, Stories
Brian was born with HIV, a diagnosis he’s carried silently through most of his childhood. Orphaned at just six years old, he has been raised by his grandmother in a small tin-walled house along the Kibera railway line. Accessing regular medication was a challenge, and...
Jun 3, 2025 | Little Sports, Stories
At The Atlas Foundation, we know that sometimes the most important stories don’t come through formal channels; they are found in everyday places, in quiet corners, in moments of honesty. This is the story of Evans. Evans is 15 years old and lives in Kitale, Kenya....
