RICE - International Relief Organization

RICE visited Nairobi, Kenya in January 2009 to do a three day leadership training for the undereducated. The people of Kenya were so gracious and so kind, longing for the training from our team. They were eager to learn and were so attentive to every single word spoken by us. These people will take what they learned at these leadership conferences, and go into surrounding villages sharing the fundamentals of leadership. It was an awesome privilege to teach these men how to build their communities, and even how to read. RICE International Relief is truly a blessing to those that need the outreach and is touching the most outer parts of the world!

-Pastor Raul Villasenor

Kenya Highlights (Source: CIA Factbook):

• Kenya is located in Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean and is slightly more than twice the size of Nevada.
• The population is 39,002,772
• The Infant Mortality Rate is 54.7 deaths/ 1,000 live births
• People in Kenya living with Aids: 1.2 million
• HIV/AIDS deaths per year: 150,000
• The Major infectious diseases in Kenya include the following:
  • Bacterial and protozoa diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever
  • Malaria and Rift Valley fever
  • Schistosomiasis
  • Rabies
• There is major water pollution from urban and industrial wastes
• Kenya provides shelter to almost a quarter of a million refugees
• Kenya has widespread harvesting of marijuana and is a transit country for South Asian heroin destined for Europe and North America.
• Refugees and IDP's: 250,000-400,000