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Chronicles from Kenya: Food Security Exploration Workshop
By gef in : Blog Entry, Kenya Updates Sep 27 2011
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Hunger is a major issue worldwide. This fact is even more prominent right now with a serious food crisis in East Africa. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “What effects one directly, effects all indirectly.” While the students, who are in school because of Global Education Fund (GEF), are not starving like some [...]
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Program Updates
By gef in : Blog Entry, India Updates, Kenya Updates Jun 15 2011
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Literacy Tools and Training (LiTT) Program Update GEF is currently supporting partner library projects in Kenya, India, and Guatemala: – Kenya: Thanks to a grant from the Safaricom Foundation, GEF Kenya purchased exam prep books and provided donated reading books to Carolina for Kibera to support the creation of a youth learning centre that will [...]
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What I’ve learned along the way
By gef in : Blog Entry, Kenya Updates Jun 1 2011
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Next month I’ll be moving to Nairobi to support the GEF Kenya Board of Advisors and staff. I’m excited to be going and to have the chance to be in Kenya full-time to support the work taking place with secondary school students. As I sort through storage units, visas, insurance and the multitude of other [...]
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