Part # 1: People, cities, and nature in Kenya. Part # 2: Some businesses and communities in Kenya.

1. Kenya

2. Part # 1
People, cities, and nature
in Kenya

3. Kenya
Area 580,000 km2. 10% is arable land.
Population 45 million people. 24% live in cities.
Languages English, Kiswahili, and numerous indigenous languages.
Internet users About 10% of the population.
Life expectancy 64 years.
GDP per capita USD 1,800.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html

4. Some cities in Kenya
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html

5. https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/14644967
Nairobi

6. https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/21523528
Nabiyotum
Crater Lake
Turkana.

7. Hot springs of Lake Bogoria, Rift Valley
http://issuu.com/svengvp/docs/bestofkenya/1

8. Fishermen
near
Malindi
https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/30556748

9. Gazelle
in Masai
Mara
national
reserve.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html

10. http://issuu.com/svengvp/docs/bestofkenya/1
Flamingos
at Lake
Nakuru

11. https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/64021408
Impala at
Tsavo
National
Park

12. Part # 2
Some businesses and
communities in Kenya

13. Agriculture

14. https://vimeo.com/113115187
Coffee

15. Kiam-
bethu
tea
farm in
Linuvu.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html

16. Small scale
farmers
plucking
tea leaves http://issuu.com/svengvp/docs/best-of-kenya-vol-02/67

17. More than 300,000 tons of tea are shipped
from Kenya each year. From no other country
in the world are so much tea shipped.
Most of the tea sold in Kenya is sold as a
commodity on the Mombasa auction market,
ending up under labels such as Twinings and
Tetley.
Mahajan, Vijay: Africa Rising, p. 187.

18. 25% of Europe's
cut flowers come
from Kenya
http://www.economist.com/node/10657231

19. The booming flower, exotic fruit and vegetable
trade employs 135,000 people and exports
more than USD 350 million a year – 35% of all
Kenyan exports.
http://viewswire.eiu.com/report_dl.asp?mode=fi&fi=1523246737.PDF

20. Clean energy

21. Hydroelectricity plants in Kenya provide
more than 70% of all output.
Main hydrostations in Kenya
 Kindaruma.
 Gitaru.
 Kamburu.
 Masinga.
 Kiambere.
 Turkwel Gorge Hydroelectric station.
 Sondu Miriu.
http://issuu.com/svengvp/docs/best-of-kenya-vol-02/67

22. KenGen is planning a 280MW geothermal project. Going
forward, it is envisaged that up to 140MW will be installed
from geothermal resources every year for the next 8 years
from 2014.
KenGen is 70% government owned. The remaining shares are
owned by the public through the Nairobi Stock Exchange.
Sources
http://issuu.com/svengvp/docs/best-of-kenya-vol-02/67, p. 148.
http://www.kengen.co.ke/

23. http://www.solafriqueltd.com/

24. Health care

25. http://www.totohealth.org/

26. Financial services

27. http://www.economist.com/news/economic-and-financial-indicators/21618842-mobile-money-developing-countries
Kenyaisworldleader
inmobilemoney

28. M-PESA lets people transfer cash using
their phones, and is by far the most
successful scheme of its type on earth.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-18

29. Barclays Kenya. http://www.barclays.com/africa/kenya
CfC Stanbic Bank. http://www.cfcstanbicbank.co.ke/Kenya/
Co-op Bank. http://www.co-opbank.co.ke/
Diamond Trust of Kenya.
Equity Bank. http://www.equitybank.co.ke/
http://jamiiborabank.co.ke/
KCB Kenya. http://www.kcbbankgroup.com/ke/
Kenya Commercial Bank.
K-Rep Bank. http://www.k-repbank.com/
http://www.mixmarket.org/mfi/country/Kenya
NIC Bank.
http://www.safaricom.co.ke/personal/m-pesa
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya.

30. Other

31. http://info.mzalendo.com/

32. http://www.code4kenya.org/

33. https://www.facebook.com/InnovateKenya