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Some 100, 000 people in the former British colony live in what's known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group.
No further details about the ship, its crew or cargo were immediately available, said Mwangura, whose organization keeps tabs on the welfare of sailors captured by the pirates.
An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.
Its confidential application was provided by the IRS to ProPublica, a news organization that was investigating whether groups that held themselves out as "social welfare" organizations were overstepping limits on political activity.