We are having great moments engaging with young people at the Africa Public Service Day 2025 celebrations here at #KICC!
Wasee wanakam through, #curious to learn how the Award Programme can help them grow through #service, #leadership, and #adventure.
It is all about #kujiamini, #kujijenga, na #kuserve na purpose and we are here for it!
Karibu kwa stand yetu, #tusort na story ya #mtaa hadi #global!
#APSD2025 #PresidentsAwardKenya
#YouthInService
#JijengeNaAward
#WORLDREADY
@AtarturkKemal Yes, the Biden admin withdrew it for a less ambitious initiative. @realDonaldTrump’s team, just before their election, warned their Kenyan counterparts to move faster because if the Democrats won, it would be taken off the table. Kenyatta got it, our trade people didn’t. Big miss
@jumaf3 Kenya is a very small market for Dstv. Of the 19.3m, only about 1.1m are in Kenya. Majority of the rest are in South Africa (7.5m+) and Nigeria (9m+). Kenya even has less subscribers than TZ. So, Dstv would not mind shutting down operations in Kenya. They really don't care.
I sat at Dulles and marvelled at Emirates Airbus as passengers alighted and could not stop wondering, all this weight at that altitude doing that speed for all that distance,it's phenomenon
I think human's greatest invention was AEROPLANE. I'll never comprehend how they arrived at that and the engineering behind it. It's just crazy. What do you think is human's Greatest invention?
I think human's greatest invention was AEROPLANE. I'll never comprehend how they arrived at that and the engineering behind it. It's just crazy. What do you think is human's Greatest invention?
President Donald Trump’s decision to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will have a similar if not greater damaging impact on the US as the countries that have benefited from the generosity and solidarity of the American people since 1961 when President J.F Kennedy established the USAID.
You see, USAID has not only been a mechanism for the US to support development and humanitarian causes in developing countries around the world, but as America’s most powerful soft power tool, it has also been at the forefront of promoting America’s global dominance in the last 63 years.
USAID has helped advance America’s security and commercial interests with greater success than similar agencies have done for their countries, in ways that Trump or his MAGA base cannot grasp. In 2017, USAID reported that America has benefitted from the aid it extends to countries in significant ways. The agency described how US taxpayer dollars spent through foreign aid had contributed to America’s economic success at home and abroad. As aid dollars developed the the people and economies of these countries, they had in turn become critical export markets for American goods, and sources of raw materials for key American value chains such as aviation and telecommunications. The agency thus concluded that without these countries, America’s economy would have at some point slid into recession.
Trump may erroneously think that shutting down USAID will save America the $64B that the agency gave out in 2023, but unknown to him, he is partly putting America’s export market that accounts for 27% of America’s GDP and responsible for creation of more than 11 million jobs at risk. Power abhors a vacuum. Countries that have been relying on USAID’s financial support will survive, by either finding resources locally to plug the funding deficit or by turning to old and new allies like France, Germany, Japan and the U.K. But as they do this, America must forget her influence as it has been for the last six (6) decades that USAID has been the star of global humanitarianism.
And it does not help matters that on top of pulling America from global humanitarianism, he is actively undermining other foreign policy pillars such as trade through imposition of unnecessary trade tariffs on important trade partners like China, Japan, Canada and Mexico.
@Dr_AustinOmondi You will notice that most Astrol Stations also have offices,shops, and/or rentals beside them.
The return from rentals take care of the infrastructure development costs.Returns from fuel are profits
Do you know what the President’s Award is about?
The President’s Award is a prestigious honor that celebrates young people between the ages of 14-24 who go above and beyond, inspiring change, and making a lasting impact in their communities.
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