All stories related to Kenya
Hope and despair intermingle in Dadaab
Aug 07, 2012
Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya, is home to nearly half-a-million people, most of whom have fled war-torn and drought-ravaged neighboring Somalia.
Dadaab: life in a refugee city
Aug 10, 2011
Snapshots by photographer Paul Jeffrey of life in the world’s largest refugee settlement
Dadaab: “It’s what makes you get up at 5am”
Jul 29, 2011
The relentness trail of new arrivals and the job of running a camp the size of a small city are what get Dadaab staff up before the sun.
Africa drought: Dadaab extension a safe haven for Somalis
Jul 25, 2011
Workers rush to survey land, clear bush and plot boundaries at the Dadaab camp extension, considered a secure environment for refugees.
This is the last of my food
Jul 08, 2011
Laurie MacGregor reports from the Horn of Africa, where 10 million are at risk of starvation
ACT in Kenya
Organisations with HQ in Kenya
- All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC)
- Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK)
- National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK)
International organisations in Kenya
- Christian Aid (CA)
- Church World Service (CWS)
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- ECLOF International
- Finn Church Aid (FCA)
- Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
- Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
- The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
- World Renew (WR) - formerly Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
- diakonia, Sweden
Organisations funding work in Kenya
- Act for Peace
- Anglican Board of Mission-Australia (ABM)
- Anglican Overseas Aid-Australia
- Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS)
- Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR)
- DanChurchAid (DCA)
- Diakonie Austria
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT)
- Finn Church Aid (FCA)
- Icelandic Church Aid (ICA)
- Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
- Kerk In Actie (KIA)
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA)
- Presbyterian World Service & Development (PWS&D)
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The (PWRDF)
- United Church of Canada (UCC)
About Kenya
- Population: 41.6 million (World bank, 2011)
- Capital: Nairobi
- Area: 582,646 sq km (224,961 sq miles)
- Major languages: Swahili, English
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 54 years (men), 55 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 Kenya shilling = 100 cents
- Main exports: Tea, coffee, horticultural products, petroleum products
- GNI per capita: US $770 (World Bank, 2008)