Data visualisation in Dandora

What if the person who has the power and the responsibility to rescue you in times of crisis turned out to be the real danger?

On Friday 19th November at the Dandora Ward 2 City Council Offices next to Dandora Secondary School, community members and the Social Justice Centres Working Group came together to visualise data about the effect of curfew orders and other pandemic policies. While under such threat, the community also showed strong signs of solidarity.

This is their story.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit Kenya in March 2020, most citizens’ lives took a downturn because of the partial economic shutdown. While residents of informal settlements in Nairobi expected the government to put in place plans for cushioning their families, many experienced excessive use of force by police.

Surveys conducted by the Social Justice Centres Working Group in April and May 2020 showed that one fifth of the respondents considered police brutality, extortion and arrests as their main security concern during the Covid-19 period.