"I believe that one cannot solve the problems that one does not fully understand.This is why I decided to take the UN secretary general to see real life in the slums.The outcome was that he gave a personal grant for UN-HABITAT to work in the slums of Kenya, as part of the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme that I had initiated with the government of Kenya when I first arrived in 2000."
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