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  2. National Youth Service (Kenya) - Wikipedia

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    The National Youth Service ( NYS) is an organisation under the Government of Kenya. It was established in 1964 to train young people in important national matters. In 2019, the organization was transformed from a state department to a fully fledged semi-autonomous state corporation after enactment of NYS act, 2018 [2]] by the Kenyan parliament.

  3. Australian Christian Churches - Wikipedia

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    Official website. www .acc .org .au. The Australian Christian Churches ( ACC ), formerly Assemblies of God in Australia, is a network of Pentecostal churches in Australia affiliated with the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, which is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world. The ACC grew out of the Assemblies of God in Australia ...

  4. Youth in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Youth in Africa constituted 19% of the global youth population in 2015, numbering 226 million. [1] The United Nations defines youth as people aged 15 to 24 years. [2] By 2030, it is predicted that the number of youths in Africa will have increased by 42%. [1] Africa's population as a whole is very young, with 60% of the entire continent aged ...

  5. Daraja Academy - Wikipedia

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    Daraja Academy was founded in 2009 by Jenni and Jason Doherty – educators from the San Francisco Bay Area who, after visiting Kenya in 2006, saw the need for girls’ education in the country. [2] Noting the degree to which gender determined educational opportunity and the correlation between education and job opportunity, the Dohertys ...

  6. Turkana people - Wikipedia

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    Overview. According to the 2019 Kenyan census, Turkana number 1,016,174, or 2.14% of the Kenyan population, making the Turkana the third largest Nilotic ethnic group in Kenya, after the Kalenjin and the Luo, slightly more numerous than the Maasai, and the tenth largest ethnicity in all of Kenya. Although this figure was initially controversial ...

  7. Patel Dam failure - Wikipedia

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    The rescue team was a joint effort involving the Kenya Defence Forces, Kenya Red Cross Society, the National Youth Service, and various local and regional police forces. During the first day of the disaster response, forty people were rescued and taken to hospitals operated by the Kenya Red Cross and other local relief organizations.

  8. Alive & Kicking (social enterprise) - Wikipedia

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    Alive and Kicking is an African social enterprise that manufactures sports balls to provide balls for children, create jobs for adults and promote health education through sport. It states its vision as being of ‘an Africa where every child can play with a real ball, where thousands of jobs are sustained in the production of balls, and where ...

  9. Starehe Boys' Centre and School - Wikipedia

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    14 November 1959. Founders. Geoffrey William Griffin Geoffrey Gatama Geturo Joseph Kamiru Gikubu. Website. https://www.stareheboyscentre.ac.ke. Starehe Boys' Centre and School (popularly known as "Starehe") is a partial-board, boys-only school in Nairobi, Kenya. The school was founded in 1959 by Dr. Geoffrey William Griffin, MBS, OBE, Geoffrey ...