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Don't be to rough on Kechup shes only putting on a front. She's a pussy cat really
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1.00 USD
United States Dollars

 

=

 

71.5700 KES
Kenya Shillings

1.00 GBP
United Kingdom Pounds 		= 124.259 KES
Kenya Shillings

1.00 EUR
Euro 		= 85.2617 KES
Kenya Shillings

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1.00 USD
United States Dollars 		= 0.575971 GBP
United Kingdom Pounds

 

Assuming this information is accurate...

http://www.farmafrica.org.uk/region.cfm?RegionID=4

The Republic of Kenya (capital Nairobi) extends from the coast of East Africa to western highlands with two thirds of its 600,000 square kilometre area being arid. With a population of 32 million people from seven ethnic groups, life expectancy is 45 years and 2.5 million people live with HIV/AIDS. The average annual income is $1,020 (75,082.99 Kenya Shillings) and half the population lives below the poverty line. Three quarters earn their living from agriculture.

I can't find a decent source that goes indepth.. into the cost of living but this gives a brief idea.
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Thanks Kechchup

$1,020 / 52 = $19.62 per week.  What should we spend on lunch? Or flowers?



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Yeah lets stop buying flowers, reduce customer demands, which will result in job losses, higher unemployment, starving families..

Theres no easy fix for this situation.
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You are right no easy fix. It will in fact take a world revolution. Which is what we are looking at the beginnings of. it dosn't matter Werther we like it or not or agree with it or not, it is happening because life cannot continue in the chaotic way is has been going.  That is the only reason the US and Britain are going to war all the time, to stop a the revolution!
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For the moment lets keep the US and Britain out of the Kenyan issue... thier problems stem alot deeper.

  • How much impact does the bribery and corruption that is rife in the government, police force etc have on the people?
  • Aid and funding is given to the country, how is it spent, does this reach the people it is intented for.
  • What is being done about the ailing infrastructure? Roads, rail, sweage system.
  • The poor live below the poverty line.. how can this be turned around? See first question.
  • How can big business exploitation be reduced?

Just a few things that spring to mind... I'm sure there are loads I have overlooked.
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For the moment lets keep the US and Britain out of the Kenyan issue... their problems stem alto deeper.

  • How much impact does the bribery and corruption that is rife in the government, police force etc have on the people? It has exactly the same impact at it dose everywhere, but I can't make the best comparison because we are keeping "the US and Britain out of the issue."  
  • Aid and funding is given to the country, how is it spent, does this reach the people it is intended for. Why should it need aid in the first place?  Because it is run by stooges whos only job is to secure the oil concessions for whichever costumer will pay the most.
  • What is being done about the ailing infrastructure? Roads, rail, sweage system. Nothing of any significance. The honest government employees are fighting for their lives trying to fend-off imports of crap medicines from bent pharmacy's in India etc. This is exactly how the 'West' was. It took generations to get corruption under cover. 
  • The poor live below the poverty line.. how can this be turned around? See first question. It will not be 'turned round', it will get worse until a rational system is enforced, which organisers for peoples needs not foreign profit.
  • How can big business exploitation be reduced? It can't. If you have 'big business' you have exploitation they go hand in hand.

Just a few things that spring to mind... I'm sure there are loads I have overlooked.



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Now try answering it without bias.
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