Lives of former street children – many orphaned by HIV/AIDS – now living at the Good Samaritan Children's Home, an orphanage and school in the Mathare Slum of Nairobi, Kenya. The focus is on complicated relationship between poverty, violence, disease, Christianity, tradition and the orphan crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Mathare Valley Slum, in the heart of the city of Nairobi, holds more than half a million people.  As the population has increased, so have poverty, crime, and diseases such as HIV/AIDS.  The living conditions are horrific as human beings live with an uncontrolled number of animals in shelters of galvanized iron sheets nailed together to form 6 x 6 cubicles.   There is no sewer system except a dirty river of garbage and human and animal wastes that runs through the middle of the slum.

The community lacks a basic health and sanitation infrastructure, which increases the risk of HIV/AIDS and other diseases like TB developing from an impaired immune system and infections.  There are many AIDS orphans that need housing, care, and schooling.