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Tackling poverty through education: Teresa's story.

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DHI, Lagoon School Lagos, Utomi raise funds for IDP camps

The Doctors Health Initiative (DHI), an NGO, and Lagoon School Environmental Committee have organised a walkathon to create awareness and raise funds for a health outreach for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yola, Benin City and Lagos.

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Kianda School celebrates 40 Years

​Olga Marlin was a young graduate in education from University College, Dublin. In March of 1960, while drying dishes at Northbrook Residence the director of the residence told her “You know, the Father wants the women of Opus Dei to start the Work in Kenya and Japan very soon…”

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An Extra Mile for Kitui

St. John Eudes Rehabilitation Centre was put up in 2001 by the Catholic diocese of Kitui to cater for street children in Kitui and neighbouring counties. The centre takes in both boys and girls and has an accommodation capacity of 65.

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Job Training in one of Africa's poor neighbourhoods

A new college of technology with facilities for 800 students was recently inaugurated in a slum district just east of Nairobi, Kenya, where over a million people live in desperate poverty.

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Eastlands College of Technology (ECT)

​Eastlands College of Technology (ECT) started as Informal Sector Business Institute (ISBI) in August 2003 in a rental house in Uhuru Estate, Nairobi. It was started with the aim of uplifting the living standards of the youth in the Jua Kali sector and equip them with business skills.

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Paths of Hope

VIDEO: An interview with Olga Marlin, a pioneer educator in Kenya, about beginning Kianda School, the first multi-racial school for girls in Kenya.

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