Slum children dream of success

The mid-morning grey weather that enveloped Nairobi's Kibera slums on Thursday enticed Kevin Ombati and his four comrades to converge by the roadside and engage in a hearty conversation.

Clad in a crisp and brightly colored school uniform, the 15-year-old eighth-grader at Raila Educational Center in the heart of the Kibera slums dominated a conversation revolving around youngsters' passions.

Ombati, his younger brother Nicholas Angwenyi and two friends had just been sent home by their school principal to collect tuition fees for the first semester of this year.