https://waterislifekenya.org Helping Kenyans Bloom Through Love & Water Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://waterislifekenya.org/2024/08/planning-for-pasture-program-update/#comment-352 Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:51:26 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=8282#comment-352 […] something remarkable during these LAB trainings. Many of the new participants took part in our Grass Management trainings over the summer as well. As a result, these groups have been very serious and motivated in their […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2023/01/maasai-culture-cattle-ritual-change/#comment-351 Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:14:14 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=5504#comment-351 […] Cows are essential to Maasai culture, economy, and status. This is why Water is Life Kenya’s (WILK) Livestock as a Business (LAB) program combines traditional livestock-raising techniques with modern business skills training to help Maasai herders get a better yeild on their cattle. Let’s take a look at what our newest LAB groups have been up to since they began training last year. […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2023/01/engineers-without-borders/#comment-349 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:46:10 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=5279#comment-349 […] Primary School. This marked the first phase of rehabilitation work for Enchakita, following a similar project completed by WILK-TEC at Imurtot Primary […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2024/06/planning-for-pasture/#comment-244 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:45:31 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=8099#comment-244 […] Planning for Pasture is already off to a strong start. Our ambitious goal is to support grazing management efforts around Amboseli National Park. We’re doing this by working with local Grazing Management Committees (GMCs) to conserve grasslands at a scale that will benefit individual farmers. […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2024/01/borehole-cost-in-kenya/#comment-237 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:58:22 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=6876#comment-237 […] boreholes in Kenya are expensive, but that’s because they need to sustain the community. Once the project is completed, women […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2023/05/all-about-elephants/#comment-236 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:58:06 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=6205#comment-236 […] to build the infrastructure needed to support the borehole and make it functional, we also have to elephant-proof it. Reinforced concrete will prevent elephants from destroying the borehole as they try to retrieve […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2022/10/east-african-drought/#comment-234 Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:08:39 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=4757#comment-234 […] some Maasai lost everything in the recent three-year drought, they haven’t taken advantage of the abundant grass growing now that it’s raining […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2024/02/lositeti/#comment-223 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:55:09 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=7323#comment-223 […] part of this project. Now, after months of hard work and persistence, we’re almost ready to hand a brand new borehole over to the Lositeti community.This deep borehole well, which is now complete and functioning, could not […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2023/04/coroallegro/#comment-200 Fri, 24 May 2024 18:17:27 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=6076#comment-200 […] April, we partnered with CoroAllegro for three nights of music and culture in their Around the World in 80 Minutes concerts. Our very own Joyce Tannian collaborated with the group and brought some Kenyan music […]

]]> https://waterislifekenya.org/2022/12/hope-for-widows-pilot-program/#comment-198 Mon, 20 May 2024 19:01:22 +0000 https://waterislifekenya.org/?p=5123#comment-198 […] been a year since we implemented our Hope for Widows Pilot Program. Based on the results we’ve complied, we’ve learned so much about what we can do to help women […]

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