Giving Compass' Take:

• On a recent trip to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, major gifts manager Abigail Betts discovered the scope of the sexual violence problem and what Doctors Without Borders are doing to address it. 

• Sexual and gender-based violence is rife in Nairobi's second-largest slum, where half a million people live in cramped conditions. How can donors help fight this?

• Here are 4 things you can do to help end sexual violence. 

Following a recent visit to Kenya with People's Postcode Lottery, I was lucky to visit two other MSF projects in the north of Nairobi and nearby Kiambu county.

MSF teams have been working in Kenya since 1987 and, as the country has developed, so too has the medical care they provide.

The project we visited is located in Mathare, the second-largest slum in Nairobi with a population of approximately 500,000 jammed into roughly half a square mile.

Theatre is a key medium for getting important messages across to young children, especially on subjects still considered very much taboo

It only takes around 45 minutes to get from the central business district to Mathare in Eastlands district – Nairobi’s notorious traffic permitting, of course – but the two are worlds apart.

As you get closer to MSF’s office, the shiny corporate buildings fall away into a ramshackle collection of corrugated iron, where children wander the streets and piles of refuse are picked through on the side of the road.

It’s overwhelming and I felt a great sense of sadness at such parallel worlds only a few miles apart.

Read the full article about addressing sexual violence in Nairobi by Abigail Betts at Doctors Without Borders.