IMPACT STORIES

A community market garden in the informal settlement of Kayole in Nairobi, teaching residents how to grow their own food in tiny spaces, even on walls and roofs. Argidius partner Somo provides business development support.

Born to a single parent mother in the slum community of Baba Dogo in Nairobi, Gregory Kimani experienced first-hand what it meant to lack food. “My mother couldn’t afford three meals a day,” he says. “As a child I depended on school-feeding programmes. But even as a young boy, I knew things could be better for slum-dwellers. I felt that the solutions were all around despite the dilapidated conditions we lived in.”