Nyeri

Nyeri is a town in south-central Kenya with 130 562 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2005 ) and is located about 100 kilometers north of Nairobi at the foot of the Aberdares in sight of Mount Kenya. The former garrison is today the capital of the district of the same and the administrative center of the Central Province. Most people who live here, belong to the people of the Kikuyu. In March 1990, Nyeri was raised to an archbishopric.

In Nyeri is Paxtu, the former home of Robert Baden -Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, who spent his final years and is buried with his wife Olave Baden -Powell in the town's cemetery. Today it is a museum and part of the hotel Outspan, the starting point to the famous Treetops Hotel tree, where in 1952 the present Queen Elizabeth II on her father's death learned.

Education

In Nyeri, the Kimathi University College of Technology is that since 2007 holding the rank of a university. From the opening of the 1978-2007 Kimathi Institute of Technology was recognized as college. The Kenya Methodist University in addition to its main campus in Meru another smaller campus in Nyeri.

Health service

The Archdiocese of Nyeri passes in the city's Gikondi Hospital.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011), scientist, professor, women's rights activist, environmental activist since 1977 ( Green Belt Movement ) and former Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2004
• Catherine Ndereba (born 1972 ), long-distance runner
• Charles Waweru Kamathi (born 1978 ), long-distance runner