NAIROBI， June 24 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's Ministry of Education has partnered with Athletics Kenya (AK) to launch the Kid's Athletics， officials said in Nairobi on Friday.

Principal Secretary for Education Dr Belio Kipsang said the move is aimed at boosting co-curricular activities among children aged between seven and 14 years.

"The main objective of the Kids Athletics is to nurture talents in children， make children enjoy sport， fight obesity and other diseases brought about by being inactive among others，" Kipsang said in a statement.

This follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by the two institutions to work together in the organisation and development of Kids Athletics in Kenya.

The program aims at making children enjoy playing and sporting at an early age. It will be integrated into school activity - put in the co-curricular calendar of events next year. The program has potential to be pathway for skill development in sport for children in future.

Kids Athletics will also enable a smooth transition from children-junior-youth and senior athletics. Some of the features of the kid's athletics will include sprinting or running， jumping and throwing events.

At least 37 people cheap air vapormax 97 , including call center staff from an American firm, are believed to have perished in a fire that tore through a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao, local authorities said yesterday.

President Rodrigo Duterte, himself a Davao native, visited distraught relatives outside the burning building overnight but told them there was “zero” chance their loved ones had survived.

Firemen found one body as the blaze was finally extinguished yesterday cheap air max 97 womens , Davao Mayor Sara Duterte, the president’s daughter, told reporters.

Firemen concluded that all those trapped in the building are dead, she said, adding cheap air max 97 mens , “They assessed that no one would survive in that heat and with that thick, black smoke.”

The deadly fire adds fresh misery for the mainly Catholic Philippines at Christmas as the death toll from a tropical storm that hit the south of the country last Friday crossed 200 and with tens of thousands displaced by severe flooding and landslides.

The blaze started at the four-storey NCCC Mall on Saturday morning, sending thick plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky over Davao.

With low wages but strong English language skills, the Philippines is a popular destination for international companies to set up customer call centers.

The building’s top floor housed a 24-hour call center for the US-based market research company SSI.

Jimmy Quimsing, a retired seaman cheap nike react element 87 womens , was one of the relatives desperately waiting for news. His 25-year-old son Jim Benedict worked at the call center and had not been in contact since the fire broke out.

Quimsing said he spoke to President Duterte and had been told to prepare for the worst.

“He told us ... no one would survive under these circumstances,” he said.

Paolo Duterte, the president’s son and the vice mayor of Davao, also wrote on Facebook that fire officials had told him there was “zero” chance of anyone trapped surviving the blaze.

In a statement on its local Facebook page, SSI said it would set up a “command center” for the relatives of those missing. “Please continue to pray for everyone’s safety cheap nike react element 87 mens black ,” it added.

Fire marshal Honeyfritz Alagano said the blaze may have started by a spark on the third floor of the mall, which had a furniture section.

“One of our firemen here has a kid who is (a call center) agent there. He told us some of them went to collect their stuff at their lockers and were trapped,” Alagano said. “The mall is an enclosed space with no ventilation. When our firemen tried to enter they were pushed back by smoke and fire.”

Mayor Duterte said she told the fire fighters to retrieve all the dead, stressing, “You do not stop until you find 37.”

She also said the circumstances surrounding the fire would be investigated but added that it was too early to say who was at fault.

Deadly blazes occur regularly in the Philippines cheap nike react element 87 mens , particularly in slum areas where there are virtually no fire safety standards.

“It’s possible that while they were working, they did not immediately notice the fire spreading,” Davao police officer Ralph Canoy said.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. military will divest an air base in Britain and return it and 14 other facilities in Europe back to their home nations, the Pentagon said on Thursday www.cheapreactelement87.com , in a bid to save the U.S. government about 500 million U.S. dollars annually.

The restructuring will pull thousands of U.S. military and civilian personnel out of the 15 sites mostly in the United Kingdom and Germany over several years, the Pentagon said in a statement.

The Pentagon would divest RAF Mildenhall, northeast of London, and withdraw 3,200 U.S. personnel from the base home to tanker cheap nike react element 87 sail , reconnaissance and special operations aircraft over the next several years, it said.

The Pentagon also has selected RAF Lakenheath in the UK to be the first permanent European base for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The first aircraft are scheduled to arrive in the UK in 2020 to replace F-15 fighter jets, it said. "The decision reflects the closeness of the U.S.-UK defense relationship and the military value of the basing in the UK," added said.

The reduction in RAF Mildenhall would be partially offset as about 1,200 U.S. military personnel would be permanently stationed at RAF Lakenheath along with two squadrons of F-35 fighters cheap nike react element 87 , the Pentagon said, adding that the net loss of U.S. troops in Britain would be about 2,000.

About nine facilities in Germany would be closed or partially closed, but overall U.S. troop numbers in the country were expected to increase a few hundred, according to the statement. In Portugal cheap air max 270 coral stardust , some 500.