Destiny Shapers is a Community Based Foundation started to help change the status quo and lives of people living in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi, Kenya. The idea to set up a foundation came about after interacting with the community as volunteers for over one year when the youth group felt it necessary to register themselves as a Foundation under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development in November 2013.
The Korogocho slum is the fourth largest informal settlement in Nairobi, after Kibera, Mathare and Mukuru Kwa Njenga. It is in the eastern part of Nairobi, approximately 11 kilometers from the central business district. It is estimated to house between 100,000 and 120,000 people on 1.5 square kilometers of land owned by the Government of Kenya. It borders the largest dumping site in Nairobi – the Dandora dumping site – posing environmental health and security risk for the residents and surrounding settlements.
The total number of households enumerates approximately at 18,537, with the largest of the seven villages consisting of 3,481 homes.