Church's Facing the Challenge of Poverty A Case Study of Korogocho Slum
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2001-02
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
In this modest work, we are going to present the Church's Facing the
Challenge of Poverty especially the case of Korogocho Slum. The first reason of
choosing this topic is that we are interested in the social, economic and political
problems going on today in Kenya, particularly in Nairobi. The second reason is the
fact that the problems of injustice, according to our experience, find their apex in the
slums, in our case Korogocho. All these social problems and their effects on human
life are summarized as caused by Poverty, which is going to be our main theme
throughout this long essay.
In the first chapter, we are going to give a short explanation of poverty in all its
forms. The second chapter will be the facts on poverty as lived and experienced in
Korogocho. We will also talk of urbanization as the backbone of the birth of the
slums; and the last section will be on the presence of the Church in Korogocho. The
third chapter is going to portray God's intervention on behalf of the exploited, the
oppressed through prophets, Jesus of Na72reth, and the Early Christian Community.
Finally our last chapter will be the mission of the Church which is the hope of this
research: The Church's Facing the Challenge of Poverty in Korogocho.
Therefore, our final aim is, first of all, to be aware of the problems or sufferings
caused by the different sort of injustices or rather the presence of unjust structure
which many people are living in (e.g. Korogocho). Secondly, to take this as a
challenge for us lay people and religious and also as a challenge for the Church at
large.
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Church, poverty, Slum, poor