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  2. Nairobi National Park - Wikipedia

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    Nairobi National Park is a national park in Kenya that was established in 1946 about 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Nairobi. It is fenced on three sides, whereas the open southern boundary allows migrating wildlife to move between the park and the adjacent Kitengela plains.

  3. Nyumbani Orphanage - Wikipedia

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    Nyumbani Orphanage. The Nyumbani Children's Home was founded by Father Angelo D'Agostino and Sister Mary Owens in 1992 to serve mostly abandoned children created by the AIDS pandemic. [1] Since then, three more programs (Nyumbani Village, Lea Toto and Nyumbani Diagnostic Laboratory) have been added to the organization.

  4. Kianda School - Wikipedia

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    Kianda School is a private, all-girls day school with a Catholic ethos located in the Westlands area of Nairobi, Kenya. The school was opened in 1977 by The Kianda Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to better Kenyan women's lives through education and Christian values. The school began with 40 students but has now grown to a student body of about 830 in both its primary and ...

  5. Starehe Boys' Centre and School - Wikipedia

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    Starehe Boys' Centre and School educates at least 70% of its students free, and the rest at a reduced rate. This stems from its founding charter as a charitable school. School fees are paid on a means-tested basis, with substantial subsidies paid by the school, so that students from all walks of life are able to have a public school education that would otherwise be beyond their means.

  6. Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia

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    The Canadian Indian residential school system [nb 1] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [nb 2] The network was funded by the Canadian government 's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches. The school system was created to isolate Indigenous children from the influence of their own culture and religion in order to assimilate them into the ...

  7. Karen, Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Karen, Kenya. Coordinates: 1.3198°S 36.6988°E. Karen is a suburb of Nairobi in Kenya, lying south-west of Nairobi's central business district. The suburb of Karen borders the Ngong Forest and is home to the Ngong Racecourse. Karen and Langata previously formed a somewhat isolated area of mid to high-income residents, but the two suburbs have ...

  8. Loreto Convent Msongari - Wikipedia

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    Loreto Convent Msongari is an all-girls school in Nairobi’s Lavington area. [1] [2] It was founded by the Sisters of Loreto with Catholic traditions in 1921. The school teaches two curriculums: the Kenyan 8-4-4 (in primary and high school) and the British IGCSE (high school only) curriculums. The high school has boarding and day facilities ...

  9. Welfare - Wikipedia

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    The Song dynasty government (960 CE) supported multiple programs which could be classified as social welfare, including the state hospitals, low-interest loans for peasants, state orphanages, free pharmacies for the poor, filled state granaries, fire stations and libraries in the large cities, retirement homes, public clinics, and paupers ...