Annie Allnutt

Trinidad & Tobago and the Republic of Kenya

Trinidad and TobagoTwo Islands in the Caribbean, northeast of VenezuelaThe country covers 1,980 square miles

Trinidad is the larger island, it is 94% of the country’s total area and is home to 96% of the population

KenyaEastern African nation bordered by the Indian Ocean, Somalia and Tanzania

Features Unique to T&TThe Pitch Lake, Trinidad

Holds approximately 10 million tons of asphalt. It is the world’s largest commercial deposit of natural asphalt which is mined and used for manufacturing and road paving

Unique to T&T, the steel pan

Features from Kenya

The Maasai Mara Wildlife Reserve, 580 square miles of grassland, home to 95 animal species and 570 species of birds.

Trinidad& Tobago’s Economy

Kenya’s Economy

Exchange rate is about 86:1 Kenyan Shillings to US$Currently East Africa’s largest economyTea is the largest export earner, followed by tourism

Government in Trinidad and Tobago

Chief of state is President George Maxwell Richards since 2003Head of government is Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar since 2010

Elections by electoral college for five year termsThe President appoints the prime minister

The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago is bicameral with a Senate and a House of Representatives.Multi-party political system

Government in Kenya

Kenya is a republicThe chief of state and the head of government is President Mwai Kibaki since 2002Presidents are elected to 5 year termsThe new constitution created in 2010 made a bicameral parliamentMulti-party system with the main parties being the Party of National Unity (PNU), the

Democratic Party, and the Kenya African National Union (KANU)

Trinidad and Tobago- The People

Kenya- The People

Trinidad- HousingStatistics released by the nation’s Ministry of Housing show the number of housing units needed for low-income families at 48,115.

HFH TT built 18 houses this year

Building in Trinidad

Kenya- HousingAfter two decades of depressed economic performance there is an acute need for housing in both the rural and urban areasBased on the census of average household size of 4 persons- there are about 750,000 households in rural areas and

1,500,000 households in urban areas in need of housing.

HFH Kenya has served 5,076 families in over 100 community groups in nine regions.

Building in Kenya