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On April 30, President Clinton visited the Solar Sister program site in Karatu town, Tanzania. Solar Sister is part of Sustainable Energy Solutions Powered by Women’s Enterprise, a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action. Solar Sister connects women in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria to training opportunities, and micro-financing groups to increase savings and investment. To date the Solar Sisters have trained 500 entrepreneurs, 300 of which were in Tanzania and as a result have 250,000 beneficiaries globally and for the commitment.


Photo credit: Max W. Orenstein / Clinton Foundation — in Tanzania.


President Clinton visited the Nainokanoka Dispensary in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. The Clinton Health Access Initiative is implementing programs to transport pneumonia and rotavirus vaccines to children in remote areas such as Ngorongoro.


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The Clinton Health Access Initiative's work has made pneumonia and rotavirus vaccines more affordable and ensured optimal vaccine delivery to children in Ngorongoro


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At the Dispensary, he was greeted by health care workers who are able to deliver effective pneumonia and rotavirus vaccines to children due to proper cold chain and storage systems implemented by the Clinton Health Access Initiative.


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On April 29, President Clinton visited the Clinton Development Initiative’s Ngongwa Anchor Farm. He then visited Wazia Chawala and her son at their home. Wazia runs a CDI demonstration plot where she shows other members of the community the techniques that help her increase her output and improve her income


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Otto Ulyate, the Field Operations Manager for the Ngongwa Anchor Farm, explains how no-till farming can reverse the damaging effects of years of soil compaction. This technique helps store rainwater and avoid runoff that can lead to erosion and lowered crop yields.


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President Clinton then stopped at the Mtitu School, which runs a demonstration plot as part of the Anchor Farm Project, and greeted smallholder farmers in the Lugalo Village.


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President Clinton visited the Clinton Development Initiative’s Ngongwa Anchor Farm. He was joined by smallholder farmers who are part of the Anchor Farm project and saw some of the equipment being used to plant and fertilize crops on the farm, which is part of the farm’s precision agriculture technology.


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On May 1, 2015, President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton went to a No Ceilings Conversation held at the Farasi Lane School in Mitini, Nairobi, Kenya. After touring the school with the principal, Madame Owaka, and seeing a lesson by a teacher, they visited the school's garden with two students, Gideon and Brenda, and heard about the different kinds of plants, herbs, and fruits that they grow.


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President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton first took a tour of the school, seeing a lesson by a teacher at the school.


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They took a tour of the school, saw the school’s garden, and participated in a conversation about women and girls’ education.


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The Farasi Lane School is part of a CGI Commitment to Action, CHARGE – Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls’ Education. CHARGE is a collaboration of more than 30 companies, civil society organizations, multilaterals and governments to improve learning and leadership opportunities for young women and girls.


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Chelsea Clinton visited the Outpatient Clinic of the Mbagathi District Hospital to view the work of the Clinton Health Access Initiative in promoting Zinc/ORS to treat diarrhea. Chelsea visited the clinic's pharmacy, where the pharmacist showed her the clinic's stock of Zinc/ORS co-pack and explained how the treatment is dispensed to mothers.


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Chelsea visited the pediatric in-patient ward where children with severe dehydration are admitted and treated.


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On May 3, 2015, President Bill Clinton & Chelsea Clinton visited Clinton Foundation projects & partners in Africa, including National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) centre, a Starkey Hearing Foundation event at the Savelberg Retreat Centre, the Wings to Fly program’s annual Leadership Congress, and the American Embassy Memorial Garden, in Nairobi, Kenya.




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President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton joined over 5,000 secondary school scholars at the Wings to Fly program’s annual Leadership Congress. The Wings to Fly program is part of the Clinton Global Initiative commitment “Investing in Kenyan Youth and Women.” This commitment, launched in 2010 by Equity Bank Limited and the MasterCard Foundation, awards scholarships for school fees, uniforms, supplies, transport, and other needs to low-income young women and men so that they can afford secondary schooling in Kenya.






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President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton participated in a hearing aid fitting event held by the Starkey Hearing Foundation at the Savelberg Retreat Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Starkey Hearing Foundation conducts hearing missions in the United States and around the globe to bring the gift of hearing to those who would otherwise live in the isolation of a silent world. As a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, Starkey Hearing Foundation has pledged to fit more than one million hearing aids to people in need this decade.




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President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton traveled to the National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) centre in Nairobi, where they received a briefing on the System for Land-based Emissions Estimation in Kenya (SLEEK) program, part of the Clinton Climate Initiative. The SLEEK program is collecting millions of data points on soil, forest, land cover, and climate. At the visit, experts talked about how SLEEK brings these data points together in a way that can inform national policies and landholders in a way that is user-friendly and informative.


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Clinton Foundation in Africa (ongoing)