On a rooftop in a Kenyan slum, a group of people are doing yoga poses. Yoga has been introduced to them as a way to help cope with their lives, and develop a livelihood to help others.

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

The slums in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, are among the biggest in Africa. There is crushing poverty, high unemployment, poor sanitation and rampant crime. It is not the kind of place where you'd expect a burgeoning yoga scene to take root, but that's what reporter Jill Craig found.

(SOUNDBITE OF YOGA SESSION)

UNIDENTIFIED MEN AND WOMEN: (chanting) Ohm...

JILL CRAIG, BYLINE: Twenty-four year old Sophia Njoki has been a yoga instructor since Kenya's post-election violence of 2007 and 2008. During that time, she witnessed horrific acts being committed right outside her door in the Kariobangi slum - one of the hardest hit areas.

SOPHIA NJOKI: Here in Kariobangi, I was seeing people were cutted on their head, they were killed.

CRAIG: Njoki says that people were being wounded and killed by men wielding machetes.

(SOUNDBITE OF YOGA CLASS)

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