I can recall some college students from New Jersey who visited us in the Valley in 1996. As we took them into the area where our Project is located, one of the young women began to weep. As we went further down into the Valley, her weeping turned into uncontrollable sobs as she passed piles of garbage like miniature mountains. Unattended animals, toddlers, children, and adults were rummaging through these garbage heaps. What a shock it was to her, as it was to me on my first visit. A putrid, foul odor is ever present because of the garbage piles and the open sewer trenches filled with animal and human waste. These flow everywhere and seem to encircle each dwelling place. A pastor who has a church within the Valley took an individual who lives in Nairobi to visit one of his projects. As the visitor was leaving she said to him, "I would rather die than live here."