Elizabeth Nyaruai [SEP] sex or gender
Elizabeth Nyaruai
Elizabeth Nyaruai (born appr. 1917) was Kenya's first female police officer. Nyaruai lives alone in a mud hut on an 89 acre piece of land given to her in the late 1960s by President Jomo Kenyatta in the semi-arid parts of Nyeri South District.
Family life.
Nyaruai was born in 1917 and was brought up on a white settler's farm where her father worked as a herds boy.
Scouting.
Nyaruai was one of the first Kenyan women to join the Scouting
program has been so successful that it has spread to other countries, including Uganda and Tanzania.
Scouts Canada has been helping the KSA run the Street Scouts for several years. Ten Street Scouts attended the 11th Canadian Scout Jamboree in 2007.
See also.
- Scouting and Guiding in Kenya
- Elizabeth Nyaruai
- Kinuthia Murugu, former director of World Scout Bureau's Africa Regional Office
References.
- http://www.path.org/publications/files/CP_k_scout_leaders_handbook_1.pdf - The information within this leaders handbook covers most of the Sungura section within this article.