For days, aid officials and global charities had waited to understand the implications of that order. On Friday night, its scale became clear.
Now, he says he is grateful for National Lottery funding, and hopes that sports in general can become better-paying, so it becomes a realistic career path for people from diverse backgrounds.After making the switch from synchronised diving to individual, Kyle says he's "excited to compete, but equally nervous", to be at one of the world's biggest sporting events.
The last person to win a medal for Team GB in the event was Tom Daley, someone he credits along with other members of the diving squad for their help."The entire team is filled with people that have multiple world medals, European medals, Commonwealth medals."We are just super-close mates. There's no egos, there's no chip on their shoulder. You can ask anyone anything about any advice."
The aim, Kyle says, is "to try and go for a medal", but he's pretty chilled if it doesn't happen."In a weird way, I don’t really mind.
"I don't think I'll be that hung up on it because my journey to get here has been so much harder," he says.
"You can always find something to be upset about after you've competed.The body which runs Nigeria's university-entrance exams has admitted to a "technical glitch" which compromised some results of this year's tests, after nearly 80% of students got low grades.
Students have complained about not being able to log in to the computers, questions not showing up and power cuts making it impossible to take the examinations.The low pass rate has sparked widespread outrage, especially after one candidate took her own life.
Faith Opesusi Timileyin, 19, who was aspiring to study microbiology at university, died after swallowing poison, her family said.Her father and elder sister told the BBC that she had sat the exam for the second time and got 146 marks out of 400, lower than the 193 she had last year.