In Nairobi proper.

This picture is to give you, my readers, a sense of what the downtown area of Nairobi is like. The people in this picture are all peddling goods to passing cars. It isn't begging, although I had at least one mom with little baby on her chest begging for money (my driver told me not to give it to her because mothers will often use it to buy glue to sniff). In Petra, Jordan, I can remember young, young peddlers being very obnoxious in their selling tactics. I realize now that it was not begging, although there were cetainly beggars there as well.

This is a a time for me personally to become increasingly aware of the poverty in other countries. For Petra the question might be, why are these small children peddling and not in school learning? In Kenya I think this may be a matter of development. The driver, Joshua, told me that the unemployment rate in Nairobi and all of Kenya is very high. The cost of living increased two to three fold about ten years ago and never went down.