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Embassy in Kenya fosters mutual understanding between. Americans and Kenyans through a multitude of professional and academic exchange. Embassy in Kenya has sent thousands of. Kenyans on U.facebook.com S. Academic.mut.ac.ke Exchanges: Fulbright Programs. The flagship. United States Government. Fulbright Program encompasses an ever- growing number of programs. Embassy Nairobi annually sponsors a number of. American students and professors who work and live here in Kenya, usually in. Kenyan university. FLTAs add an energetic and. U. S. This interaction makes studying and learning languages. If you are an English teacher and would like to apply, please. Kenya. Fulbright. Humphrey@state. gov. Fulbright Scholar- in- Residence Program.


These professional exchange programs are administered by other offices of the U.S. Provides young professionals between the ages of 25 to 35 with a 4-week legislative fellowship within one of the U.S. The Worldwide Fulbright Scholar- in- Residence Program brings. U. S. Fulbright. Scholars- in- Residence can have a significant impact on U. S. Student Program is designed to give master’s degree. For more information visit Institute of. International Education. Fulbright Senior Specialist projects are designed to provide. U. S. For more information visit Fulbright Specialist Program site. If you would like to apply for this program on behalf of your.


Humphrey@state. gov. Community College Initiative Program The Community College. Initiative Program enables individuals from select countries to study at. United States to develop professional skills. Most participants are in their early- to mid- twenties. The program provides academic. 1. The new Fulbright-Clinton Fellowship Program awards participants the opportunity to serve in professional placements in foreign. 2. AIESEC develops the next generation of young leaders with impactful professional and volunteering experiences to activate their leadership potential. United States and may earn a vocational certificate. After. completing the program, participants return home with new skills and. Youth Exchange and Study (YES)This U. S. Department of State- funded scholarship program provides. Middle Eastern, African, and Asian.


United States for a full. Deadline for submitting applications: January. This program is managed by a local Kenyan group called. Organization for Intercultural Education (OFIE). Embassy, we identify different secondary schools from which to recruit. Humphrey Fellowship Program. The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program brings accomplished. United States at a midpoint in their careers for a year of. The Young Professionals Programme (YPP) gives qualified young people the opportunity to contribute to the Commonwealth’s work in international development and democracy. Home; Learn about Embraco. The program provides a basis for. United States and their professional counterparts in other. If you would like to apply for this. CV covering your education, work, and leadership. Humphrey@state. gov. International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)The International Visitor Leadership Program brings participants.


United States from all over the world each year to meet and confer with. U. S. The. visitors, who are current or potential leaders in government, politics, the. American officials. More than 2. 00 current and former heads of state, 1,5. International Visitor Leadership. Program. The invitation to visit the U. S. For that reason, individuals cannot apply to. Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. This. public- private partnership places talented, emerging women leaders from all. FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women. Leaders. The three- phase program opens with an orientation session in. Washington, D. C., where the participants meet with senior women in government. The international participants are then paired with one. FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women Leaders from companies like Time Inc., Avon. Wal- Mart, and Exxon Mobil in cities across the United States. For three weeks. American and international participants work together in mentoring. The program concludes in New York City, where the. Goldman Sachs and Solera Capital. Embassy in their home country. Institute for Student. Leaders. S. Institutes for Student Leaders are intensive. United States, while simultaneously. The institute will include an academic residency. Washington. D. C. If you have further questions, contact Kenya- exchanges@state.


This is why Kenyans chose for themselves a new constitution in 2010 that sought to reorganize the way we manage our business as a country. That's why they remove certain powers from the president and gave them to independent institutions to remove that personality-driven cult that one man controls the entire system. And I believe, this is working. ZAKARIA: But people still say you are supremely powerful. KENYATTA: Well, I don't know about supremely powerful, but if you actually look at the situation that we have today in Kenya and compare it to where we were before. That is actually, you know, not the case.


I have no power to appoint or fire judges anymore. Really my rule is more or less a rubber stamp or saying that whatever the commission does. The judiciary has gained its independence. The same applies to the legislature. Now, where the issue of power comes from is what it says, oh, but you control parliament. But yes, it's true. We have a majority in parliament. We have that majority because the people chose to give that majority to the party to which I belong to. ZAKARIA: When people talk about gay rights to you and President Obama did this on his visit there, you say, look, we have our culture. We have our traditions.


Don't try to impose your values on us. KENYATTA: Let me make it clear to you, I'll put it this way. Now, where we are, and on the level of development that we are at, I am not saying that these people don't have their rights. That's not what I'm saying. I am just saying that the majority, the majority in our society do not wish to legalize this issue of gay rights. ZAKARIA: Can you persuade them? KENYATTA: People in Kenya are not at this point entitled. And that's exactly what I said when we were with President Obama.


To them this is not an issue. That they are going to put at the center. They have more pressing issues. However, that said I am also and will not allow people to persecute any individuals or to beat them or to torture them. KENYATTA: No, what I'm saying witch hunts. What I'm saying is witch hunts. You know, we won't allow people to take the law into their own hands and harass and no, we won't. Every individual has the right to be protected by the law. And that's stated in our Constitution. But what we're saying is that as a society we do not accept some of these values. And this is where I'm saying we've got to get synergies. You're not going to create the United States of America or Great Britain or the Netherlands in Kenya or in Nigeria or in Senegal or overnight.


And we were to understand that these are processes and they'll take time. ZAKARIA: President Kenyatta, pleasure to have you on. KENYATTA: It's been great. ZAKARIA: Up next, Anne-Marie Slaughter says nobody would expect a male CEO to juggle his work responsibilities with parenting.youtube.com So, why do we expect a female CEO to do just that? It's a very good question and one I will explore with her and the lead parent of her household, her husband, when we come back. ZAKARIA: Three years ago, Anne-Marie Slaughter, frequent guest here on GPS, published an article in "The Atlantic" that got a whole lot of people talking.


ANDREW MORAVCSIK, PROFESSOR OF POLITICS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Good to see you. ZAKARIA: Anne-Marie, you argue in the book that things in the American workplace are much worse than people realize. It's a toxic environment. ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, PRESIDENT & CEO NEW AMERICA: Well, what I say is that we don't make room for caregiving. That we used to have a world, in which men worked in the office and women stayed home and took care of people and those were sort of equally necessary activities and equally important. And now we have a world in which at least for Murang'a 60 percent of American women, women are working as well as men, but we haven't changed the workplace. We haven't made any room for what is an essential human activity, but more women are doing it than men, which is care.


ZAKARIA: You look at the data that we see and you see THAT America has a real competitiveness problem, because women and men start out in education equally. In fact, women tend to do a little bit better. ZAKARIA: After in college and graduate school. Starting out working pretty equally. And then it changes. ZAKARIA: Ten years out women start dropping out of the workforce. SLAUGHTER: Well, and really historically, look at this, since the 1990s we're only at 20 percent of women in senior management. And that's in a really good industry. So, the drop off is dramatic. And the drop off is typically because women get shut out. When they have kids and they are the lead parent then they need more flexibility.


ZAKARIA: And you say your career would not have been possible, if not for the fact that your husband was the lead parent? ZAKARIA: So, first you're not just Anne-Marie's husband, you're also a tenured professor of European politics at Princeton University. What do you think we can learn from other countries? Is this a problem that can be solved with a few important governmental shifts? MORAVCSIK: Not solely. But it will certainly help. The starting place is paternal leave, flexibility in the workplace and job security for people. And we were fortunate to be in the academic profession where we have those things.


So, for me the tradeoff between becoming a lead parent, taking care of the kids to a greater extent than Anne-Marie was not so incompatible with being successful in my career that I was unable to manage it. And that's what really made this possible. And it's certainly more possible to do that in countries like Sweden and Denmark than it is here in the United States today. ZAKARIA: But does Europe have the kind of equality you'd expect at the higher levels, Andy? Because what I'm struck by is culture must also play a role. Europe has better laws, but frankly, in many ways I think opportunities just culturally are more available to women in America because of just the idea that anyone can succeed.


MORAVCSIK: That's right. So, the paradox about - of America is that many couples start out wanting to have 50/50 career opportunities for both members of the couple and 50/50 child care responsibility sharing. But they can't achieve it. Part of the reason is institutional and workplace related, but it's also cultural. We have values in this country where we don't feel that a man who takes those child care responsibilities and becomes the lead parent has the same legitimate standing in society that a woman does. Until we change those values, not many people are going to take advantage even of the opportunities that we make possible.


ZAKARIA: Do you think men would accept these changes? MORAVCSIK: I do. I think it's in men's interest to accept these changes, because men are trapped the same way that we often think women are trapped. Women are trapped in a role, which is now a role of trying to do both the caregiving and for career women, working. Men are trapped in a role where they have to work and they can't choose to be caregivers as well. I found it tremendously rewarding to be able to step back from that a little bit and be a caregiver at the same time as I worked.


And here is the truth that studies tell us. At the end of life, men look back and overwhelmingly say I wish I had spent more time caring for friends and family and less time doing the things that other people expected me to do in the workplace. SLAUGHTER: Although it does lead to competitive parenting. Because now the boys text him more than they text me. MORAVCSIK: It drives you crazy. SLAUGHTER: It drives me nuts. MORAVCSIK: That's the - of the leading parent. ZAKARIA: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Andy Moravcsik, pleasure to have you both on. MORAVCSIK: Thank you very much.


ZAKARIA: Next on GPS, ISIS this week issued a jihad against America and Russia, too, for good measure. But coming up, I will tell you about a jihad that intends to better the world. Not create more violence and bloodshed. ZAKARIA: This week Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the U.S. November 3rd, earlier than predicted. The situation requires action, but when you compare the debt to the country's GDP, it's worse in other parts of the world, and it brings me to my question of the week. What country has the highest debt to GDP ratio? Zimbabwe, Greece, Lebanon, or Japan? Stay tuned. We'll tell you the correct answer. This week's book of the week is Philip Tetlock's "Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction." If you're wondering if there's any way to predict an election, an economic crisis or even a war, Tetlock has an answer.


He uses psychology and political science and a lot of common sense, and he taps into what's often called the wisdom of crowds. This is a fascinating book and it will make you think. Now for the last look. What do a papal encyclical and an Islamic jihad have in common?mut.ac.ke No, this isn't the start of a bad joke. But I'll tell you. You'll probably recall that Pope Francis gave the call to action in his environmental encyclical this summer, in which he wrote these stinging words. But you may not have heard about a similar call to action in a place home to too many piles of filth, including a dump so large, it is nicknamed the mountain.


Senegal. According to Al Jazeera, an imam in Senegal has declared a green jihad.youtube.com Yes, a jihad against pollution. He says protecting the environment is a moral calling. As the population of Africa grows, human health is increasingly put at risk by emissions and pollution. The World Health Organization attributed nearly 45,000 deaths of children under five years of age in 2012 to ambient air pollution in Africa. One photographer captured the African pollution problem with a collection of stunning images entitled the Prophesy. He depicts not only the danger of the situation in Senegal, but hope for a better future, as the Huffington Post pointed out.


You hear a lot from the science community about the dangers of climate change, but calls to action from artists or religious leaders are surely essential too. I for one am delighted that a devout Muslim religious leader is using the idea of jihad to call for positive action to better the environment and help human beings in this world. The correct answer to our GPS challenge question was D, Japan. According to the IMF projections, the land of the rising sun will have nearly a 246 percent debt to GDP ratio this year. The United States is projected to be in 14th place, with a debt to GDP ratio of roughly 105 percent. Still not a prize by any stretch of the imagination. Thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. I'll see you next week.


Most young men holed up in Nairobi have only one desire: to get a well paying job, and then rise through the ranks to head a company.flickr.com Very few take the alternative route - entrepreneurship. But Mathew Kiilu is an exception. 33,000) oil pressing firm in the heart of a rural village Kenya. EAiF reporter got a chance to have an up-close and candid discussion with the young man. It is 2.30 pm, the sun is blazing hot in Makutano village, Makueni District - about 80 miles from Nairobi. Kiilu has his white shirt and hands greased in oil, beads of sweat cover his face as he inspects the mammoth oil storage tank. After what seems like eternity, he retreats to the front office where he is setting a mini shop for retailing his pure oil named Hafya.


But what would make a young man, born and raised in the city, to retreat into the village? " Kiilu says when he settles for the interview. His friends were against the idea partly because it was not "youthful" or attractive. "But my old man played a very big role in this. He encouraged me," notes Kiilu. He explains, "I just decided to shut out the negative voices and go for what my heart craved for. Life without risks has no romance." He was in his third year at the Nairobi University in 2007 studying electrical and information engineering - that he started the project with the support of his father.


But why would Kiilu opt for the village? "It was about cutting costs, number one. It would have been very costly to set up in Nairobi in terms of renting premises and other factors. There were obstacles to grapple with. Despite not being far from the nearest electricity source, KPLC took 10 months after his application to connect power to his business location. "Getting sunflower seeds for pressing was a hustle, especially after the post-election violence, just soon after the work had begun. We had difficulty getting seeds from Western Kenya," Kiilu says. Western Kenya was the worst hit during the post-election violence of 2007 ,so he decided to source seeds from Mombasa and Oloi Toktok.


An engineer himself, Kiilu has been able to cut costs by fixing electrical and other technical aspects of the plant himself. He diagnoses mechanical problems on site and repairs them as they arise. Extracting oil from sunflower seeds is a technical and tedious process. Referred to as oil pressing, the extraction process begins with the mechanical expulsion of oil from the seeds. This initial process gives out an end product of unrefined oil known as ‘cake’. The ‘cake’ is transferred to a settling tank where decantation - heating of the oil to do away with particles - is done before the partially refined oil is relocated to a storage tank.


Filtering is then done to remove pulpy invisible dust, in a procedure referred to us ‘rooting’. Lastly, the oil is refined before it’s packed in varying quantities. To do this effectively, Kiilu says that he had to start small and use his profits to make improvements and get other necessary machines. For one to successfully set up a pressing firm, an oil press, vacuum cleaners, refiner, settling tanks, food storage tanks, bottling line and shrink-wrapping machine are mandatory.go.ke 43.3). The waste product is a protein-rich substance sold to animal feed firms. Still youthful, Kiilu is upbeat about his future.go.ke Striking as a jack of all trades and a master of all, young Kiilu is experimenting with flour milling through his mother company, Kilimanjaro Light Industries. The road to success, he notes, has been bumpy and even now, Kiilu still struggles to push the product to the end market. Sunflower seed prices have since gone up, and the cost of production continues to skyrocket. But again, as he says, failure to take risks is failure to enjoy the romance of life!


The mother of a 14-year-old girl, who disappeared from a witness protection unit, wants the agency to explain her daughter 's disappearance. The minor was placed under the witness protection unit in October, following claims that she had been defiled by a police officer at the Murang'a police station.youtube.com The girl had been remanded at the station after being arrested for stealing clothes at the Murang'a University of Technology. Constable Laban Njogu was accused of defiling the minor on September 30. He was on duty at the report office on that day. The officer has since been charged with the defilement.