Fundraising Goal: $250,000
WILK's 2024 Year-End Campaign for Hope & Transformation
You can help us reach more Kenyans than ever before in 2025 by making your most generous year-end gift.
Clean Water
We bring sustainable clean water systems to rurual communities.
Income Generation
We train & finance traditional livestock farmers in best- practice methods.
Women's Empowerment
We empower women with clean water and entrepreneurship training.
Our vision is to develop and enhance a thriving ecosystem in Kenya, integrating its unique collection of ethnicities, nature, and wildlife riches.
Our Mission
We're Helping Kenyans Bloom Through Love & Water
Water is Life Kenya is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to spark personal, economic, and community development in marginalized communities in Kenya, according to existing customs and culture. We do this by providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, empowering women, and equipping people to develop income through improved resource management.
Learn more about WILK by reading our Founding Story >
Our Transformative Programs
WASH Projects
Since 2007, we've brought clean water, sanitation, and hygiene to 100,000 Maasai people in southern Kenya.
Livestock as a Business
This 4-year training and loan program helps Maasai livestock farmers run successful, profitable businesses.
Hope for Widows
Hope for Widows restores dignity by equipping women with business skills and giving grants of goats and cash.
Planning for Pasture
Began in 2024, Planning for Pasture is transforming how grazing management is organized in the Amboseli ecosystem.
Our Values
Hope Through Local Empowerment
Water is Life Kenya drives sustainable change by empowering Maasai communities through hands-on learning. We don't just provide resources—we teach communities how to manage water, livestock, and businesses for long-term success.
Our Trainings:
Encourage Dynamic community participation.
Respect the long, rich history of Maasai culture while introducing new concepts.
Empower women as leaders and entrepreneurs in a male-dominated society.
Water is Just the Beginning
Watch the video below to see the Oleopolos Community Borehole, established in 2012. For over a decade, this life-changing project has provided clean, reliable water to the surrounding community, improving livelihoods and supporting sustainable development.
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Unleashing The Power of Women
The problem we had for years was dirtiness of water. Every now and again people were suffering with stomach aches. So many times we go to the river and the water was dirty due to sharing with cows and goats. But since the borehole was brought here, we have clean water that helps our children and helps the community, school, goats and cows. Now everyone is fetching clean water and we are living a paradise life.
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Leah Nasingoi
Esukuta Community Borehole Member
Water is Life Kenya has taken us far as women. Even our minds are a bit different than before we meet WILK. If I can go to do farming now with knowledge that I got from WILK, it is a big change. If I go to the market to sell livestock, it is a big change that I can sell as the men sell. I can choose a good breed of cows like the men can choose. it is a big step to us as women.
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Priscilla Ene Shinina
Chairlady of Oloirien LAB Group
Since I learned how to keep livestock as a business from Water is Life Kenya I learned to control the drought. For example, I cut grass, bean crop residues, maize crop residues and collect acacia seed pods. Then I bought extra parts for my milling machine, which I only use for my cow feed, and mill them together and store it in bags in my home. During the drought season I have food for my cows.
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