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Kuresoi-Community.
Kuresoi Constituency is one of the five constituencies that form Nakuru county, in the Rift valley province. Kenya. In the proposed Independent electral and boundaries commission's report of 2012, Kuresoi district will be split into two constituencies; Kuresoi North and Kuresoi south. A large part of kuresoi is the East Mau forest,part of the largest water catchment in kenya, The Mau forest complex. Two major rivers, The Mara river and Sondu Miriu have their sources in Kuresoi, Molo river which drains into lake Baringo has one of its tributaries Ribeti starting in Kuresoi.

The people
Kuresoi has a population of 89594(1999 census) The community is cosmopolitan, The kalejin form the Majority,followed by the Kikuyu, Kisii, Luhya,maasai and the forest dwelling Ogiek which is also considered a subtribe of the kalenjin.

Farms and crops.
The farm sizes range from small plots of average 0.8 hectares owned by the majority small scale farmers to large scale farms owned by peoples who are or were influencial in the past governments. The small scale farmers grow potatoes, Maize, garden peas, kales, pyrethrum(diminishing production)and keep animals. the area recieves a lot of rains in march-May season and in the July-october long rains. most of the feeder roads are impassable during this seasons and a lot of crops go to waste.

Education
The region has about 200 primary schools and 44 public secondary schools. no tertially institutions and the transition rate from primary school to secondary is below the National rate. Incidecies of resource conflicts have been experienced reccurently since 1992 with the climax in 2007-8, Post election violence. This conflicts have affected the socio-economic development of the people in this district.IDP (internaly displaced persons) are a common feature in the district. Conservation efforts in the Mau forest complex have also resulted into more IDP camps after the small illegal enchrochers were flashed Stanleynderitu (talk) 18:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)