Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84Plough Quarterly • Winter 2017 51 Chris Okere Odundogrew up in Kibera, one of the largest slums in the world, outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Seeing a lack of fundamental sanitation, Chris started a nonprofit organization called Power of Hope Kibera to address basic health and hygiene issues. He met his wife when she visited the slum working on similar issues for a US-based nonprofit. They now run Power of Hope Kibera together out of Boulder, Colorado. I can say that in Kiberapeople love each other and there is peace and joy. What sometimes does take away my peace is people who stay here in America and think there is no hope for them. They don’t come and talk to the people. I try to bring youth together because they say that youth can do anything to make peace happen or not happen in a place – they are very flexible to do anything. I try to come up with meetings and talk to them: “We need to come together, love each other, and work together so that we have peace, because if we have peace we will go far.” Sometimes they listen and sometimes they don’t. In Kibera you find dogs barking everywhere. If you try to stop the dogs barking, you can’t reach your destination. So I’ll leave alone the dogs that are barking without any benefit and go forward, and I’ll make it to my destination instead of focusing on the dogs that are just making noise.  ■ “If you want to make peace in a place it takes time.”