Environment
With USAID/Kenya support, women of the Green Belt Movement restored 220 hectares of forest in the Aberdares in 2010.
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Education and Youth
Nearly half a million pre-school and primary pupils studied in USAID/Kenya supported schools in 2009.
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Hot water springs

Environment
USAID/Kenya trains community wildlife scouts and helps community conservancies earn income from their landscapes and wildlife. Increased security for residents, wildlife, and visitors is key to making conservancies work.
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Health
USAID supports Kenya's Development Strategy by training medical staff in maternal, neonatal and child health.
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Wheat fields

Economic Growth
USAID/Kenya programs give small-scale farmers the skills, technologies and connections to move from subsistence farming into growing a surplus for sale.
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Children in Madrassa class

Education and Youth
USAID/Kenya’s education program trains instructors in madrassas (traditional Islamic schools) to teach arithmetic and reading along with religious instruction.
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School Girl Holding Pencil

Education and Youth
USAID aims to upgrade teaching in more than 2,000 schools in 2011. That means improving the quality of education for approximately 400,000 children.
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Boda-boda operators: bicycle taxis

Health
USAID/Kenya's HIV prevention programs reach out to bicycle taxi operators and other high-risk groups.
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Horticulture

Economic Growth
In 2010, the USAID/Kenya horticulture program helped more than 38,200 small-scale farmers--50 percent of whom are women—grow more, connect to markets, and earn more.
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Democracy and Governance

Democracy and Governance
USAID/Kenya provided technical assistance for the Interim Independent Electoral Commission's voter registration drive. Over 12.5 million Kenyans registered in time for the Constitutional referendum of August 2010.
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Stories from Kenya

photo by Serah Njenga

APHIAplus’s Pharmacy Innovation
The irony that you could be starving as your neighbor wonders where to take his excess food was a problem that bothered APHIAplus Kamili’s (AK) Care and Treatment team leader, Dr.
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Value Girls member feeding young chicks, photo: USAID/Clara Kakai

Nike Foundation, USAID Partnership Boosts Young Women’s “Value”
Two years ago, 21-year-old Beatrice Kasina was a struggling fish seller on the shores of Lake Victoria. Seventeen-year-old Ruth Otieno was unemployed and fully dependent on the meager income of her fisherman husband. Twenty-...
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credit: Delphin King, Laikipia Wildlife Forum

Resilience Week at USAID
The week of April 2, USAID is focusing on resilience and international efforts to do business differently to avoid crises in the future. On April 3 and 4, USAID's Administrator and other senior officials will participate in...
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Joseph Ochieng, of the Rift Valley Wheelchair Basketball group in Eldoret

Kenyan Wheelchair Athletes Find Peace, Reconciliation on Basketball Court
Many victims of the 2007 Kenyan post-election violence were deaf, blind, or unable to run, making it difficult for them to find safety.  As a result, one group of athletes with disabilities decided to take the matter to...
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Delegates at the YYC National Conference Celebrating

Yes Youth Can Holds Inaugural Conference in Nairobi
On March 28, 2012,The U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Jonathan Scott Gration gave the keynote address to a ‘Yes Youth Can’ national conference at the Multi-Media University on Langata Road in Nairobi.   Over 600 elected...
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