SIDAREC's Pumwani Community Center Site

The preschoolers gather outside of the community center for a group photo. There are up to seventy 2-5 year old students who crowd into the 2 small classrooms at the community center to get a head start on learning, an opportunity not afforded to the majority of residents of the Pumwani community.

Ashley playing with plastic snap-blocks with a preschool girl in one of the 2 classrooms.

A young operator in the broadcast booth of SIDAREC's Ghetto FM radio station in Pumwani. Ghetto FM broadcasts to an area of nearly 600,000 people. It offers the youth of the community a voice to communicate their experiences, joys and struggles of gr owning up in the slums.
The radio tower at the Pumwani community center broadcasting Ghetto FM.

Kids at the community center.

A little boy peers suspiciously at us as we get out of our van to check out the Pumwani community center.

Young girls doing each other's hair on the steps of a house next to the community center.