Life is not easy for the 22,000 inhabitants of the Kikambala village just outside Mombasa, Kenya. Most families live well below the poverty line, with many surviving on less than a dollar a day and without electricity or running water. If ever a place needed a guardian angel, Kikambala would be it.
Enter Salima Visram.
Visram, now in her final year in International Development Studies, grew up in Mombasa. Her parents, who operate a successful beach resort, instilled in their children an appreciation for what they had and empathy for people who are not as fortunate. But in the Visram household, empathy means action.
Not content with merely providing employment at the resort for locals, the Visrams have also built a nursery school in Kikambala and established the village’s first health clinic where, on top of medical services, people have access to free fresh water. Today, Salima’s sister is building a secondary school – the village’s first – in Kikambala.
Read this report by Neale McDevitt for McGill Publications at http://publications.mcgill.ca : McGill Reporter
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