All stories related to Kenya
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
ACT Alliance organisations meet in what we call a Forum to do joint analysis of the national situation, and joint planning.
Link through to Forum page in ACT Groups
Organisations with HQ in Kenya
- All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC)
- Anglican Church of Kenya
- National Council of Churches of Kenya
International organisations in Kenya
- Anglicord
- Christian Aid
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
- Church World Service (CWS)
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- ECLOF International
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- Lutheran World Federation, The
- Lutheran World Relief
- Norwegian Church Aid
Organisations funding work in Kenya
- Act for Peace
- Australian Lutheran World Service
- Bread for the World
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief
- DanChurchAid
- Diakonie, Austria
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- ICCO
- Icelandic Church Aid
- Kerk In Actie
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
- Presbyterian World Service & Development
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The
- United Church of Canada
About Kenya
- Population: 39.8 million (UN, 2009)
- 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)