INFORMATION BY COUNTRY
Kenya: Newsline
Beating All Odds, Refugee Girl Shines At School
NAIROBI, Kenya - 08 August 2009 - Fatuma could have married at fifteen. She could have been among the many Somali girls who never have a secondary education. She could have stayed in the refugee camp where she grew up, helping her mother collect water and firewood.
Mkomani, an island school connected to the world
LAMU, Kenya, 27 March 2008 – Not so long ago Mkomani Primary School in Lamu, an island off Kenya’s coast, lacked books, desks, floors and ceilings. Today 17 brand new computers acquired with UNESCO’s support adorn its premises.
Fatuma’s Digital Diary: Girls’ education in Kenya’s largest slum
KIBERA, Kenya, 4 April 2008 – Kibera is Kenya's largest slum, right in the heart of the capital city, Nairobi. The slum's million-plus inhabitants struggle with extraordinary poverty and high crime rates. As is true throughout Kenya, the vast majority of Kibera's residents are under the age of 30, and less than half of the district's youths ever begin secondary school.
Following post-election conflict, thousands of children miss the first day of school
NAIROBI, Kenya, 24 January 2008 – The violence that erupted in the aftermath of last year’s disputed presidential elections has made life chaotic for many in Kenya.
Fatuma’s Digital Diary: Daily life for girls in the slums of Kenya
NEW YORK, USA, 24 October 2007 – Fatuma Roba, 20, lives in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Deeply concerned about the rights of girls and women, she is a founding member of the Binti Pamoja group – a girls’ centre in her community.
Playing under the fig trees in Kenya
October 2006 - Young children in a rural Kenyan community thrive thanks to “Loipi” community learning centres that are culturally adapted to their needs.
Education and awareness make progress against female genital cutting in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya, 24 August 2006 – In the North Eastern Province of Kenya, UNICEF is helping communities abandon the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), or cutting, which is still inflicted upon the vast majority of girls in the province.
Naomi Siombua, 15, builds confidence playing football in a Kenyan slum
NAIROBI, Kenya – Children growing up in the slums outside Nairobi face danger at every turn. Rape, burglary and disease are common in a place where almost nobody has running water or electricity. In the worst areas, children are more likely to become addicted to sniffing glue than graduate from secondary school.
Kenya’s abolition of school fees offers lessons for rest of Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya, 17 April 2006 – Maureen Akinyi, 14, dreamt of becoming an accountant and making it to the top of Kenya’s growing corporate sector. She came from a poor but relatively stable family in Kibera, a sprawling slum in Nairobi that is home to over 800,000 people.
Kenya: Regional disparities threaten progress towards education for all
LOKICHOGGIO, Kenya, 17 November 2005 – Far from the gleaming skyscrapers of downtown Nairobi, children in this remote corner of Kenya spend their school days wondering if they will eat a single meal.
