3rd Period: Team Uywanda

Country: Kenya

Geography:

Kenya is on the border of the Indian Ocean and Lake Trkana is in the middle of sibiloi national park. Mt Kenya is nice for refreshing walks and bird watching Great Rift Valley is full of the coral reef.

Surrounding countries are Uganda Somalia Ethiopia and Sudan
Architecture:
Some homes in Kenya are timber framed with mud walls in fortified villages. Some

Natural Resources:Some recourses are gold, limestone, soda, ash, salt, reeds, water
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History timeline:
10000 BC upper paleothiic period 400 AD migration of the Bantu Cushitic and nilotic peoples in East Africa

1400-1700 Portuguese extend their empire to east Africa

1895- British declare Kenya a protectorate

1896-1905 Kenyan people resist British

1963 Kenya gained independence

1964 Kenya became republic

Religion-mostly Christian, Muslim, Hinduism, Buddhism

Food-ugali, rice, bread, meat beef chicken and goat

Music-drums rattle

Arts and crafts- beaded jewelry, baskets, gold

Famous people - Mwai president, Stephene Kalonzo Musyoka vice president, Raila Amolo prime minister Wabgari Maathai, Ngugi wa Thiongo, jomo Kenyatta

Current Issues:
AIDS is the main problem residing in kenya. 75 percent is caused by sexual contact. The main solution to this problem is to educate people.


70 percent of all the people in africa are living with aids. There are 1.2 million people living with aids in kenya.

SOLUTION:
Increase the education of how aids comes about and how to avoid it. Donations would be the way of bringing knowledgable people to educate the kenyans. Aids could be reduced if the kenyans knew more of how to not get the disease.
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Solution Letter:

February 13, 2010



H.E Peter N.R.O. Ogego

Ambassador

Embassy of the Republic of Kenya

2249 R Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20008 U.S.A.



Dear Ambassador Ogego:



We are a group from WCHS doing a project on Kenya. Our goals were to learn interesting facts about Kenya and discuss an issue and propose a solution to that issue. We learned about Kenya’s wonderful history and the many tribes and their interesting traditions. The issue we chose to discuss was AIDS because it affects so many Kenyan’s lives. Our proposed solution is a project funded by your government to increase the education of AIDS in Kenya through posters, presentations were people work, and presentations in schools. Also a donation system could be set up to help fund the project. We hope our ideas are helpful.



Sincerely,



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