DID YOU KNOW

• The capital of Kenya is Nairobi
• There are 199 slums in the city of Nairobi
• ½ of Nairobi’s population lives in a slum – 1.6 million people
• The word “Kibera” means jungle or forest
• The unemployment rate in Nairobi is 50%
• The unemployment rate of Kibera is 80%
• The people who live in Kibera pay rent to the government to live in their 9ft X 9ft dwellings
• The three major diseases that cause children in Kibera to loose their parents are aids, malaria, and dysentery
• 54 countries make up the continent of Africa
• The five countries surrounding Kenya are Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania
• Kenya has the largest number of refugees of all the countries in the world
• The population of Kenya is 34,210,000
• The population of Nairobi is 3.5 million
• Kenya was a British Colony from 1886 - December 12, 1963
• Jomo Kenyatta was the first Kenyan born president
• Although public school in Kenya is said to be free, each student
  must buy their own desk, uniforms, books and supplies