@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialUN Women's 2023 working paper reports women and girls spend three times as much time on unpaid care, domestic and communal work as men, and work longer hours once paid work is counted. In Mathare that ratio settles who queues for water. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDocumented in Mathare in 2025: a woman leaving at 4am to be first at the only working water point after the floods. Two to five hours of fetching on the days water comes. Water is care infrastructure. Fund it as such. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialInternational Day of Older Persons. In informal settlements, elderly people cannot self-evacuate and need intensive care during disasters, and that care falls on women. Article 57 promises reasonable care. Section 6(2) of our proposed Bill would fund it. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialProlonged water scarcity, rather than a single storm, does the most psychological damage to caregivers. It compounds, and it drains the reserves needed to care for children and elderly relatives in the same weeks. A water crisis is a care crisis. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA 2025 BMC Psychology survey of 800 women in Nairobi's informal settlements found about 37 per cent with mild depression and 22 per cent with moderate. Scores were highest where eviction followed the flood. A measured climate cost. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialClimate and Care for Her launched on 12 May 2025 at our offices in Mathare. The first thing agreed was documentation: who records, who monitors, where it is kept. We set out to prove the climate-care link, not assume it. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialYouth and Urbanism is a not-for-profit incorporated in 2022, working in Mathare, Kenya's second largest informal settlement. Our oldest team members are 27. We document the climate-care burden because we live where it lands. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialFundación Avina's Climate and Care Initiative says care and climate have been overlooked together in policy, programmes and research. In Sub-Saharan Africa women do 80 per cent of household unpaid care hours. We work that gap from Mathare. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialWomen documented by Mathare Social Justice Centre in April and May 2024 described nights without sleep and a fear that outlasted the flood by months. The feeding and the nursing carried on anyway. Recovery plans should pay for that. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
Did you know a 2025 study found a third of women surveyed in Mathare and Kibera had mild depression, and a fifth had moderate depression.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDid you know a 2025 study found a third of women surveyed in Mathare and Kibera had mild depression, and a fifth had moderate depression.
Read it all on WhatsApp, tap and press send:
https://wa.me/254732218005?text=Care
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialZero Kenyan laws use the words care work, unpaid care or care economy. Not the Climate Change Act 2016, not the Employment Act. We drafted the proposed Care Economy and Climate Resilience Act 2026 because a country cannot budget for what it never names. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialClimate shocks raise depression, anxiety and stress among caregivers in urban informal settlements, and the unpaid care work still gets delivered daily. A caregiver's mental health is household infrastructure. Kenya's adaptation budgets do not treat it that way. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
