Reaching Souls International Involvement:
We have been working in Kenya since 1986. Over
15% of Kenya's population is infected by the HIV virus.
Reaching Souls International saw 99,710 salvations in Kenya in 2003.
Short Term Projects:
- Nairobi, 1986
- Mombasa, 1988
- Kisumu, 1989
- Embu, 1990
- Eldoret, 1996
- Kakamega, 1998
- Gongoni, 2000
I.A.M. National Missionaries
Regional Director
Ezekiel Birya
Associate Regional Director
Allen Katana Dzuya
Arthur Kinyanjui
David Maina Muturi
Dickson C. Kadenge
Elisha S. Ndaro
Ferdinand N. Tembo
Nairobi
Festus Mwarandu Kombey
Harrison K. Masha
Humphrey K. Jefa
Jimmy Safari Kenga
Joseph K. Ngowa
Joseph M. Bemaigo
Jospeh S. Ngowa
Nathan Micheni Isaac
Nathaniel Katana Charo
Paul Mulati Lutiali
Peter O. Ajemo
Samson K. Ngumbao
Wilson S. Yongo
Population: 32,021,856
Life Expectancy: 45
Years
HIV Deaths: 190,000
per year
Kenya (pronounced as KEN-ya)
is a country of eastern Africa, bordering Ethiopia,
Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and the Indian Ocean.
Nairobi is its capital and largest city.
The colonial history of
Kenya dates from the establishment of a German
protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal
possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of the
Imperial British East Africa Company in 1888. Incipient
imperial rivalry was forestalled when Germany handed its
coastal holdings to Britain in 1890.
During the early part of the 20th century the interior
central highlands were settled by British and other
European farmers, who became wealthy farming coffee. By
the 1930s approximately 30,000 settlers lived in the
area and were offered undue political powers due to
their effects on the economy. The area was already home
to over a million members of the Kikuyu tribe, most of
whom had no land claims as lived as itinerant farmers.
To protect their interests, the settlers banned the
growing of coffee, and the landless were granted less
and less land in exchange for their labour. A massive
exodus to the cities ensued as their ability to provide
a living from the land dwindled.
From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a
state of emergency arising from a rebellion against
British rule. The first direct elections for Africans to
the Legislative Council took place in 1957. Despite
British hopes of handing power to "moderate" African
rivals, it was the Kenya African National Union of Jomo
Kenyatta, which formed a government shortly before Kenya
became independent on December 12, 1963. A year later,
Kenyatta became Kenya's first president.
At Kenyatta's death in 1978, Daniel arap Moi became
President, and in democratic multiparty elections in
1992 and 1997 won re-election. In 2002, Moi was
constitutionally barred from running and Mwai Kibaki was
elected President.
