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The Kamusi Project Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
From the Kamusi Project:Swahili is the most widely spoken African language, with more than 80 million speakers in East Africa and Central Africa, particularly in Tanzania (including Zanzibar) and Kenya. The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is a collaborative work by people all over the world. Together we are working to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language - Kiswahili - both within Swahili and between Swahili and English. We are preparing print-based dictionaries and multi-media Swahili learning applications, all accessible to you through the home page.
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Harambee Centre
The mission of the Harambee Center is to pull people together for the good of the global community. We believe that multicultual education and intercultural exchange are essential to bulidng genuine understanding, respect and enduring relationships among diverse peoples. As members of the global community, we are committed to sharing both material and cultural wealth. The Harambee Centre's goals are threefold: to inform, educate, and enlighten people of our community about the cultures and realities of the vast and varied societies of Africa; to build bonds of understanding, respect, and mutually beneficial relationships between people in the Pacific Northwest and people in Africa; and to support self-help projects in African communities by generating funds from resources in our communities. We value collaboration and work to coordinate activities with other groups that share and/or complement our mission. We promote diversity and welcome broad participation in our programs.
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Makindu Children's Program
Makindu Children's Program, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Brownsville, Oregon, operates a day resource facility called Makindu Children’s Centre (MCC) in a rural region of eastern Kenya. The Centre provides nutritional, medical and emotional support, access to basic education, and opportunities for vocational training for over 100 destitute orphan children. The children live in guardian homes in the community, and can come to the Centre daily for food, recreation, bathing, and laundering facilities, emotional support, and crisis intervention.
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