Street vendors in Nairobi

Street vendor in the African world is one of the most common occupations. These people used to take care of yourself and have adapted to survive in the most extreme situations. I suggest you look at the African street vendors and their products. Slums are not the only places extreme survival: a closer look at them shows that they are self-generated sites, an ever-expanding economy. Seller and its product - "indicators" of consumption needs and even the whims of the community.
Masai Lessiamon 25 years, selling drugs and traditional medicines in the Mathare slum in Nairobi. In its plastic canister antimalarial syrup for 30 Kenyan shillings a glass.





Daniel Ndunyu 24 years old, he sells stuffed animals, using his bike as a warehouse.



George Odongo selling hats and clothes for children in Kosovo.



Peter Omondi and Jair Kimani, 32 and 27 years old. These craftsmen street, repaired damaged plastic pipes, melting silicon with a hot iron. They go to the slums with a metal tank in which they are kept constantly hot soldering iron and carbon.



Johnston Mutunga, 21 years old. Seller pesticides in the slums of Mathare. He earns 200 Kenyan shillings a day, wearing a hat in the form of a mouse, to attract the attention of buyers.



The photo Muradzhe Tiong - old salesman, he had 13 children. He sells handmade wooden spoons, brooms and straw baskets.



George Nyong trades shades. He earns about 1,000 shillings a day (he sells them for 500 shillings, but more than half of the money goes to the Indian dealer).



William Teg, 24 years old. He sells 10 minute ride on a camel for 10 shillings per trip. He is not the owner of the animal, and therefore pays 300 shillings each day the owner of a camel, his daily income is about 500 shillings.



Josh Nyag 29 years. Josh sells Liski in the slums of Mathare. His salary of 400 shillings a day. He has 3 children.



Peter Boniface, sitting on his cart "Kokoteni." He sells water cans for 20 shillings a canister, in the slums of Mathare in the square Istleyt, Kariobidzhi in eastern Nairobi. He earns 360 shillings per truck.



David Oteyno, 18 years old, he earns 400 shillings, collecting plastic bottles in Korogocho, Dandora, Mathare slums.



Ben sells SIM cards for 100 shillings for each of the Kenyan / British telephone company.



Peter ABEK 22 years. A student who sells pots in the slums of Nairobi. He earns 250 - 400 shillings, half of the money goes to the Indian wholesaler.



Jack shoe shiner, working in Mathare slum district Hurum, cleaning a pair of shoes worth 150 shillings.



Josh Nyag 29 years. Josh sells brooms in the slums of Mathare. His salary of 400 shillings a day. He has 3 children.



Mr. Jack is engaged in shoe cleaning, working in the Mathare slum, the cost of cleaning one pair of shoes is 150 shillings.



David and Mike 18 and 19 years, they sell second-hand shoe in slums. Their earnings about 3,000 shillings a day.



Jimmy Kariuki selling hats with a bicycle in the slums of Mathare.



Bernard Rango, 17 years old, he makes a "puppet theater" in front of primary school pupils in Mathare. During the speech, he asked for a few shillings to each child.



Dan Oko, 41 years old, he weighs the people to their old weights for 10 shillings and sells used hangers and headphones is probably found in landfill Dandora.



John Vambuyo, he was 26 years old, he sells pieces of watermelon and earn 10 shillings for a piece.



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