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Kenya Fact SheetMount Kenya is the second highest mountain in Africa. (Mount Kilimanjaro, which is in Tanzania along the Kenyan border, is the highest peak on the continent).1Around 25,000 species of animal and 7,000 plants have so far been recorded, along with at least 2,000 fungi and bacteria.2 The current population of Kenya is 34,707,817, with nearly 43% being children under the age of 15.3 Kenya is struggling with chronic rural poverty. Over 16 million Kenyans survive on less than $1 a day, with rural areas accounting for about 90% of Kenya's poor.4 Over 2 million people in Kenya are HIV positive, while 1.5 million have already died from AIDS.5 In 2002, around 15,000 Somalis fled civil conflict in south-west Somalia, across the border into Mandera, leaving thousands of street kids and orphans to fend for themselves.6 Statistics reveal that Kenya has the worst forms of Child labour with over 1.9 million children in Nairobi alone living on the street, with a considerable proportion engaged in child labour.7 According to estimates by the Women’s Health Organisation, approximately 10% of the population has a disability.8 On 26 December 2004, a quake occurred under the sea near Aceh in north Indonesia (8.9 on the Richter scale); this produced tsunamis causing flooding and destruction in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Thailand, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and the east coast of Africa (Kenya and Somalia).9 |
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Mt Everest Trek 2008
Between 29 September and 18 October 2008, GVN is offering a hike to fundraise for the support of 13 children living in the Brighter Future Children's Home in Nepal. > Read More
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