A maze of shacks, mud, and open sewers on the edge of Nairobi, Kibera is one of the biggest slums in the world. It could have as many as one million residents, though nobody knows for sure.

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Finally, African youths are taking their deserved place in the political space, especially judging by what has dominated media headlines in the past couple of months. Youths have acted out their disappointment in Tunisia, Egypt, and other countries. Change could be on the way for Kenya too, with one of TEDxChange @ TEDxKibera’s speakers, Raphael Omondi.

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Nurse Dorah Nyanja’s brightly painted Senye Clinic stands in stark contrast to its surroundings—rusted tin shacks, piles of burning trash, and streams of raw sewage. I first met Dorah at Senye in 2007, when she was a franchisee with CFWShops Acumen Fund in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, East Africa’s largest slum.

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In January, we held our first TEDxChange salon, in Kibera, Nairobi. It was inspiring for me to meet the community there and hear their perspectives on health and development. I’d like to thank them for the exceptional conversation.

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Last week in Nairobi was TEDxChange@TEDxKibera, a program of talks and discussion in the Kibera slums with a group of action-oriented people who are focused on changing the status quo. Many interesting people were in the room—from some of the mappers I've come to know from the MapKibera initiative to people from Slum Dwellers International.

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