Attaining the Full Potential of Human Achievement — Physical, Social and Psychological

Abstract

Kenya today is internationally recognized as a rapidly developing country. This new status which our country has been accorded is no doubt due to the Kenya Government’s commitment towards the provision of basic services for its population thereby contributing in a significant way to the improvement of the quality of life in the country. It is also due to the peace and stability that has prevailed in Kenya over the last fifteen years. The effort of government, the spirit and practice of Harambee*, that became the development motto of Kenya since independence and the support of friendly countries everywhere account in large measure for the success that Kenya can claim today. And while we in Kenya are flattered that the world has removed us from the list of the least developed countries, we are only too well aware of the long way we still have to go before we can even begin to claim developed status in terms of wide coverage and especially of equitable distribution of basic services. For this surely must be the yardstick by which we can measure our success and our development today.

Harambee is a collective, cooperative effort by the people to help themselves “putting or pooling (resources) together — supplementing government effort in an effort to hasten development”.