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TO GO WITH AFP STORY By Anne CHAON Residents of Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum prepare to plant vegetable seedlings in a sack-garden on October 15, 2012. The innovative project implemnted by the NGO, Solidarites International and funded by the European Union and French development agency, a.f.d., is feeding more than 250,000 people in the slums of Africa and Asia .High cost of arable land in the east African nation has denied many land on which to cultivate which coupled with a high rate of unemployment has left a majority of families unable to fend for themselves. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/GettyImages)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY By Anne CHAON Residents of Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum prepare to plant vegetable seedlings in a sack-garden on October 15, 2012. The innovative project implemnted by the NGO, Solidarites International and funded by the European Union and French development agency, a.f.d., is feeding more than 250,000 people in the slums of Africa and Asia .High cost of arable land in the east African nation has denied many land on which to cultivate which coupled with a high rate of unemployment has left a majority of families unable to fend for themselves. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/GettyImages)
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY By Anne CHAON Residents of Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum prepare to plant vegetable seedlings in a sack-garden on October 15, 2012. The innovative project implemnted by the NGO, Solidarites International and funded by the European Union and French development agency, a.f.d., is feeding more than 250,000 people in the slums of Africa and Asia .High cost of arable land in the east African nation has denied many land on which to cultivate which coupled with a high rate of unemployment has left a majority of families unable to fend for themselves. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/GettyImages)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY By Anne CHAON Residents of Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum prepare to plant vegetable seedlings in a sack-garden on October 15, 2012. The innovative project implemnted by the NGO, Solidarites International and funded by the European Union and French development agency, a.f.d., is feeding more than 250,000 people in the slums of Africa and Asia .High cost of arable land in the east African nation has denied many land on which to cultivate which coupled with a high rate of unemployment has left a majority of families unable to fend for themselves. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/GettyImages)
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY By Anne CHAON A resident of Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum water's vegetables planted in a sack-garden on October 15, 2012. The innovative project implemnted by the NGO, Solidarites International and funded by the European Union and French development agency, a.f.d., is feeding more than 250,000 people in the slums of Africa and Asia .High cost of arable land in the east African nation has denied many land on which to cultivate which coupled with a high rate of unemployment has left a majority of families unable to fend for themselves. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/GettyImages)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY By Anne CHAON A resident of Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum water's vegetables planted in a sack-garden on October 15, 2012. The innovative project implemnted by the NGO, Solidarites International and funded by the European Union and French development agency, a.f.d., is feeding more than 250,000 people in the slums of Africa and Asia .High cost of arable land in the east African nation has denied many land on which to cultivate which coupled with a high rate of unemployment has left a majority of families unable to fend for themselves. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/GettyImages)
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