The US has announced that they are going to stop giv­ing to Kenya’s edu­ca­tion pro­grams after an audit found more than $1 mil­lion dol­lars miss­ing. This fol­lows the UK’s deci­sion in Decem­ber to stop giv­ing to the edu­ca­tion program.

The Kenyan pro­gram showed good promise when it started in 2003, enrolling over 1 mil­lion chil­dren who had never attended school before. Now the program’s effec­tive­ness has been slowed due to cor­rup­tion and graft.

From this Asso­ci­ated Press story that we found at NPR, we read more of the stop fund­ing announce­ment made by the US Ambas­sador to Kenya.

The U.S. made the deci­sion based on claims late last year that Edu­ca­tion Min­istry offi­cials mis­ap­pro­pri­ated 100 mil­lion shillings ($1.3 mil­lion) of Kenyan gov­ern­ment and donor funds to finance the country’s much-lauded free pri­mary school edu­ca­tion pro­gram, U.S. Ambas­sador Michael Ran­neberger told a lun­cheon of the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce in Kenya.
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The U.S. fund­ing was to cost $7 mil­lion and begin this year, the ambas­sador said.

Kenya’s Finance Min­istry audited the pro­gram late last year and found the funds miss­ing. Britain announced in Decem­ber it was sus­pend­ing its fund­ing of the program.

Britain’s fund­ing totaled 55 mil­lion ster­ling pounds ($88.8 mil­lion) over a five-year period, begin­ning in 2005. The Decem­ber sus­pen­sion saw the last tranche of fund­ing, 10 mil­lion ster­ling pounds ($16.1 mil­lion), withheld.

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