Rural Kenya

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• Rural Kenya
• marginalized by government

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Kenya at a glance

• Kenya is a country on the eastern coast of
  Africa. More than half the population lives below
  the national poverty line, and the rural poor
  have little access to education and health care
  services.
• Population 31.9 million
• Average life expectancy 44.6 years
• (Life expectancy in Canada 79.3 years)
• (Life expectancy in the United States 77.4
  years)
• Population under the age of 15 13.4 million
• Average yearly income 400 US
• (Average yearly income in Canada 24,470 US)
• (Average yearly income in the United States
  37,870 US)
• Gross domestic product (GDP) 14.4 billion US
• (Canadian GDP 856.5 billion US)
• (United States GDP 10.9 trillion US)
• Human Development Index 154/177

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Kenya at a glance

• Health and education services in Kenya do not
  meet basic human needs.
• 79 out of every 1,000 babies die upon birth
  (versus 5 in Canada and 7 in the United States)
• 21 of children under the age of five are
  underweight
• average life expectancy has actually decreased
  over the last three decades, from 50.9 years in
  1970-75 to the current 44.6 years in 2000-05
• In one year
• Kenya spends 7 of its GDP on education.
• Canada spends about 5.2.
• The United States spends about 5.7.
• This means
• Kenya spends about 31.60 per person on
  education.
• Canada spends about 1,409 per person on
  education.
• The United states spends about 2055.50 per
  person on education

GDP stands for gross domestic product, which
means the total market value of all the goods and
services produced within the borders of a nation
during a specified period.
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Kenya at a glance Literacy rate
People aged 15 and above who can read and write
Percentage of people
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The marginalized Maasai

• The Masai Mara region in Kenya is one of the
  world's most beautiful animal and plant habitat.
• But the Maasai people have a long history of
  marginalization and discrimination within their
  own country.
• They have little access to education and health
  care services.

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The marginalized Maasai

• There are very few schools in the region, and
  long distances between existing schools and local
  communities.
• Maasailand has the highest primary school dropout
  rate in Kenya, mainly because of poor facilities,
  their need to tend cattle and lack of support
  from those in power.
• Many Maasai children start their education late
  because schools are too far from their
  communities.
• Inadequate access to health services has resulted
  in increasing rates of "poverty-related" health
  issues including child mortality and infectious
  diseases.
• The future of the Maasai is uncertain and their
  very existence in danger.

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About Free The Children

• Free The Children is the largest network of
  children helping children through education in
  the world, having directly impacted over one
  million children in 45 countries through our
  programs.
• The organization was founded in 1995 by Craig
  Kielburger and a group of his 12-year-old
  classmates.
• The organization is the lead NGO partner with
  the United Nations Office of the Special
  Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
• Free The Children has been profiled on Oprah
  (four times), 60 Minutes (twice), CNN (many
  times) and in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star,
  NY Times, TIME, People, The Economist and many
  other news and print media.
• The organization has received the Roosevelt
  Freedom Medal and the State of the World Forum
  Award. It has been nominated three times for the
  Nobel Peace Prize.

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A track record of success

• Through the voices and actions of young people,
  Free The Children has
• Built more than 400 primary schools in Africa,
  Asia and Latin America.
• Provided 35,000 children in the developing world
  with education every single day.
• Shipped 9 million US worth of essential medical
  supplies to 40 countries.
• Implemented althernative income projects,
  helping more than 20,000 poor women and their
  families.
• Delivered 200,000 school and health kits to
  students around the world.
• Provided 123,000 people with access to proper
  sanitation and clean water.

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Free The Children in Kenya

• Free The Children has worked in Kenya since 2000
  to rebuild entire communities by constructing
  schools and training teachers.
• In the last five years, Free The Children has
• built schools to provide daily education to more
  than 2,900 children aged six to 12, and
  significantly increasing the rate of girls
  attending school in the Masai Mara region
• provided wages for teachers
• shipped hundreds of school and health kits
• established a mobile health clinic
• provided the Maasai with access to safe water
  through wells and sanitation units

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Free The Children project location in Kenya
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How can you help?

• Through the Adopt a Village campaign, students
  will help poor and marginalized children and
  their families meet their basic human needs.
• This includes access to
• primary education
• alternative income projects
• health care services
• clean drinking water and proper sanitation
  systems

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Education Adopt a Village

• Education is a human right with immense power to
  transform. On its foundation rest the
  corner-stones of freedom, democracy and
  sustainable human development. Kofi Annan,
  United Nations Secretary General

• Free The Children believes that education,
  particularly for girls, gives the highest return
  of any social investment in the developing world.
  
• In the Education phase of the Adopt a Village
  campaign, you will share the gift of education
  with your peers by raising funds for
• building schools
• supporting teacher wages and training
• furnishing classrooms

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Poverty and child labour in Kenya

• "That so many children should be forced to
  workand endure the hardship and abuse that so
  often comes with itis more than simply
  unacceptable. It is unconscionable. These
  children need to spend time learning and
  developing, not labouring in a desperate attempt
  simply to survive."
• Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF

• In Kenya
• 38 of childrenabout 5.1 millionare child
  labourers
• 52 of the population lives below the national
  poverty line
• about one in four people lives on less than 1 a
  day
• 58 of the population lives on less than 2 per
  day

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Alternative Income Adopt a Village

• Alternative Income projects provide poor
  families, especially women, with a source of
  income to support their families and to send
  their children to school.
• In the Alternative Income phase of the Adopt a
  Village campaign, your fundraising efforts will
  provide families, especially women, with a
  sustainable source of income through productive
  resources like
• milking animals (cows and goats)
• sewing machines

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Health care in Kenya
"The health of mothers and children is part of a
much bigger picture. It is the foundation of the
well-being of our societies as a whole. When a
mother or a child gets sick, that foundation is
damaged. When children die, whole generations are
weakened the very generations whose strength we
count on to overcome poverty and build a better
future for all of us." Dr. LEE Jong-wook,
Director-General, World Health Organization
About 37 of the populationwith many children
among themis malnourished and in desperate need
of basic health services.
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Health Care Adopt a Village

• Health care programs are essential to any
  community's development. Proper health care helps
  reduce the prevalence of preventable diseases and
  allows people to lead healthy and productive
  lives.
• In the Health Care phase of the Adopt a Village
  campaign, your fundraising efforts will support
  
• construction of health centres
• family and health education
• shipping of essential medical supplies
• nutritious lunch program

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Water and sanitation in Kenya
"We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis,
malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases
that plague the developing world until we have
also won the battle for safe drinking water,
sanitation and basic health care. Kofi Annan,
United Nations Secretary-General

• According to the United Nations Development
  Program, in 2000

This refers to daily availability of at least 20
litres per person from a sourcesuch as a
household connection, protected well or spring,
or rainwater collectionwithin one kilometre of
the dwelling. This refers to adequate human
waste disposal facilities (private or shared, but
not public) that can effectively prevent human,
animal and insect contact with the waste.
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Water and Sanitation Adopt a Village

• Clean water and sanitation projects are vital to
  develop healthy communities. Safe water and
  proper sanitation helps reduce the prevalence of
  preventable diseases.
• In the Water and Sanitation phase of the Adopt a
  Village campaign, students will support the
  construction of
• community wells
• clean water systems for families

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Be the difference that makes the difference!

• Adopt a Village and help the children of Kenya!

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• For more information on how to get involved
• in the Adopt a Village campaign,
• please contact the Youth Programming Team
• by calling 416.925.5894 or by e-mail at
  youth_at_freethechildren.com.
• Visit our website at www.freethechildren.com!