For many years, young people near Amboseli have struggled to find gainful employment in Kenya. Last year, we organized the Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) to spark entrepreneurial spirit and create job opportunities for these young Kenyans. Young men together during an early YEP training session. YEP Pilot in Full Swing…
Kimana Girls’ School has a new mode of transportation for its students! On June 17, a 65-seater bus arrived with fanfare at the school. The road was all but shut down as people crowded the street for its homecoming procession. Larasha and Cate standing by the new bus just before…
WILK’s Hope for Widows Program (HFW) supports marginalized widows through community building, small business skills training, and grants of goats and cash. This is the fifth year we’re helping widows bloom in this program, which has now reached 190 women. We’re so proud of how hard the first four groups…
Since 2011, WILK’s Livestock as a Business (LAB) Program has supported Maasai livestock farmers as they transition from cultural livestock keeping to running livestock businesses. A constant theme addressed in LAB trainings is managing the drought cycle. “Double LAB” will address this in an innovative way. This is what healthy…
This past September, Emily, Doug, Weldon, and Ryan, engineers from our very own WILK-TEC (Technical Engineering Committee), made the trip to Kenya. This trip focused on Phase 2 of the Inchakita Primary School Rainwater Harvesting System. A new building was outfitted with WILK-TEC’s custom-designed first-flush system, which keeps dirt and…
We’ve made Dr. Francis Tannian’s dream come true! After last year's fundraising efforts and much planning, WILK's new Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) has been going strong. Let's take a look at the results of the pilot over the last several months. WILK Co-Founder Joseph Larasha speaking at an early youth…
Our Livestock as a Business Program (LAB) is entering its fifteenth year! Near the end of 2025, we distributed loans to eleven total groups that were trained in this program, which elevates traditional Maasai livestock-keeping practices so that people earn more from their cows. Let's take a look at how…
Women in our fourth Hope for Widows cohort have been busy since receiving their training last summer. Let's take a look at how what they've learned has impacted their businesses and contributed to their success. Group 4 widows at a training session last summer. Group 4 Widows Update Since their…
On July 21, we held the opening ceremony for a new borehole at Nalepo Kanan. Originally called Inkisanjani, the community changed the name to "Naleop Kanan," meanining “the Promised Land,” because of this gift of clean, accessible water. Our friends from St. Philip’s Lutheran Church from Wilmington, DE, sponsored the well…
Life for Maasai women has never been easy. Water is Life Kenya was founded to relieve the daily burden of carrying water far distances that women and their daughters endure, which takes an immense amount of time and energy. But the challenges don't stop there. According to Maasai tradition, women…
