Voice, Dignity & Justice
As of January 2025, Haki Yetu is proud to announce the appointment of a new Board of Directors, now chaired by Father Gabriel Dolan. A long-time human rights defender and the organisation’s founder, Father Dolan brings decades of experience…
By Munira Ali Omar Behind the Affordable Housing plan, Lies the Tale of an illicit plan, Promises made of grand dreams, Yet underneath, a dark scheme, Planned with greed in mind, To profit from the hustlers & the vulnerable…
On Friday 14th October 2022, Haki Yetu Organisation launched a research report entitled: ‘Housing For Who?’ at Nyali Sun Africa Hotels. The launch was geared to underscore the need to understand how the housing crisis and the land question in Mombasa should be addressed.
The report analyses the place of the poor in urban development.
“Sadly, evictions in informal settlements support the belief in the misguided opinion that poor people are an obstacle to be overcome as they are seen to be anti-development.”
Vikobani, a settlement on an 0.8ha of land in Mombasa’s Jomvu sub-county is home to 36 families. The families can breathe a sigh of relief after a successful 8 year legal battle that ended with the families acquiring ownership documents to the land they so close came to loosing.
