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Habitat for Humanity: Kenya

Habitat for Humanity: Kenya. Getting to know Kenya…. Location: East Africa Population: 37 million Languages: Kiswahili, English and indigenous languages Economy: Tourism; agriculture; primary exports include tea, coffee and horticulture products

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Habitat for Humanity: Kenya

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  1. Habitat for Humanity: Kenya

  2. Getting to know Kenya… • Location: East Africa • Population: 37 million • Languages: Kiswahili, English and indigenous languages • Economy: Tourism; agriculture; primary exports include tea, coffee and horticulture products • Nearly 60 percent of Kenya’s 37 million residents are rural subsistence farmers and live on less than US$2 a day.

  3. Problems Facing Kenya • High disease prevalence • High unemployment • Rising urbanization • Widening gap between rich and poor • Climate change results in periodic draughts and flooding • Post-election violence in 2008, which forced thousands of people from their homes

  4. Habitat in Kenya • Habitat for Humanity Kenya began building houses in 1982. • Since then, HFHK has built over 2,900 homes in partnership with families in over 70 local community groups, in seven regions: Bomet, Bungoma, Kisii, Machakos, Maua, Naivasha and Runyenjes.

  5. Habitat Houses in Kenya • HFHK houses have concrete foundations and floors, corrugated galvanized iron roofs and durable walls made of locally-produced brick, stone, rammed earth or stabilized soil block. The average size is approximately 34 square meters.

  6. MaaiMahiu Displaced People Community • One group of displaced families, living in tattered tents in the town of Maai Mahiu, used funds provided by the Kenyan government to collectively buy a piece of land, which they subdivided and on which they intend to permanently settle. • Habitat Kenya partnered with these 120 families of the Maai Mahiu Displaced Peoples Community—among them Linet Gesare Maroko and Teresia Kwamboka Silal—to build houses, allowing them to move from their tents to sturdy, safe Habitat houses.

  7. MaaiMahiu Displaced People Community • Linet Gesara Maroko stands in front of the tent where she and her family have lived since losing their home and land in post-election violence in Kenya. • Video http://www.habitat.org/hw/decent_housing/All_for_a_purpose.aspx#P0_0

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