Last week, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephanie McCrummen published a story in The Atlantic about the current land problems Maasai face in Tanzania. The details of her investigation are, at the very least, troubling, and her work has brought further awareness of land grabs in Tanzania and Kenya that Maasai have…
Over the last couple months, we've teamed up with local schools to raise awareness about the water crisis in Kajiado County, Kenya. Today, we'll highlight St. Joseph's University to show how students are helping our Maasai friends live better lives. "Magis" at Work On March 22, Water is Life Kenya…
We began our Hope for Widows program because widowed Kenyan women face immense odds due to disenfranchisement and gender inequality. We'd like to highlight one woman's success within her first year of participation.
Because of the 3-year-long drought in Kenya, we paused our Livestock and a Business (LAB) program last year. However, since parts of Kajiado County received rain earlier this year and more rains are expected, we've restarted training three new groups of livestock farmers this summer and fall. This blog will…
We're thrilled to announce a new phase of our partnership with Engineers Without Borders Delaware Professional Chapter (EWB). After 7 years together, the volunteer engineers decided they wanted to work exclusively in Kenya with Water is Life Kenya. EWB will now be known as WILK-TEC, “TEC” standing for “Technical Engineering…
On August 26, we presented goats and grants to women who completed training in the second round of our Hope for Widows program. We learned so much from the cohort groups, and the new groups will benefit from the boost that the grants will provide for their businesses. https://youtu.be/3oi__6XJYnI?feature=shared This…
Our summer newsletter is hot off the press! Today, we're going to share some of the highlights in case you missed it. A man carries home the food he received at the Nooriro Borehole Opening Ceremony. Sharing Our Loss Dorcas Mutero went where few of her peers went. She came…
We’ve compiled highlights from our WILK Wednesday newsletter to show how our community of donors have been helping Kenyans bloom.
Written by Carl Burnam; originally published on Delaware Online. It’s a Small World, the saying goes — so small, in fact, that CoroAllegro hopes to take you “Around the World in Eighty Minutes” at its choral concert later this week. This amazingly diverse and intense collection of folk and local…
Over the next couple months, we have so many opportunities to share our work with the community in and around Newark, DE. If you're in the area, stop by and introduce yourself at one of our events—we'd love to meet you in person! The Return of Thirst Reverse (two locations)…
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