harambee
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- noun
- /hɑːrɑːmˈbeɪ/
- UK
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harambee
- Through harambee, Kenyans built numerous hospitals and schools and provided other support to health care and education infrastructure.
Examples
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The spirit of harambee inspired everyone to contribute to the community project, ensuring its success.
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Harambee became an avenue through which citizens could hold their leaders to greater accountability.
Academic text (1998) -
"Harambee" means to "pull together" and was often called out at political meetings during Kenyatta's era.
Academic text (2000) -
She added that at the karamu everyone present drank from a unity cup and said, "Harambee."
Academic text (2001) -
The strategic focus of NFI in Milwaukee is the provision of "livable wages" for Harambee families through employment and economic development.
Academic text (1997) -
Through Africanization, land redistribution, civil service expansion, and minimum guarantees for education and health care provision by the state and harambee, the state was able to meet the social and economic expectations of the masses.
Academic text (1998) -
A second law, the Public Collections Act, regulated the collection of harambee contributions and the conduct of other fundraising events by requiring the issuance of a license from the provincial administration before any funds could be collected from the public.
Academic text (1998) -
Students can apply to several types of schools: (a) government-run schools that often have well-trained teachers and adequate resources; (b) private schools, which could be mission schools that open most often in areas of poverty or where schools are rare, or could be for-profit elite schools that offer many amenities; and (c) community or harambee schools, where parents and community leaders band together to provide a school for the children in the community.
Academic text (2012) -
During a harambee, community members gathered to build a new playground for local children.
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At the annual harambee, locals united to raise funds for the new health clinic in their village.
Synonyms
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Working together with others to reach a shared goal
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People working together and helping each other to reach a common goal
A community event where people meet to work together on a shared task
How Communal
Surface Forms
Etymology
A harambee comes from Swahili meaning 'all pull together' and in Kenya it names a community event or the spirit of neighbours helping each other, so the word now means both the gathering and the idea of working together.