How Kenyan athletes help struggling local communities

Adharanand Finn visits Arusei Junior Academy with athlete Isaac Arusei, who started the school when its precursor was destroyed in post-election violence

Running through the quiet, picturesque countryside around Iten, it's hard to imagine the violence that was wreaked in the days following Kenya's last election at the end of 2007. Eldoret and the surrounding area was one of the main epicentres of ethnic violence that left 800 people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.

In the town of Burnt...