It helps to learn about the people we serve in Kenya, so we’re taking a moment to highlight aspects of Maasai culture that are unique to this group. In doing so, we hope to show why it’s important to help the Maasai maintain their unique lifestyle in an ever-changing modern…
This week, Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Delaware Professional Chapter will be back in Kenya at Imurtot Primary School. Hosted by the Water is Life Kenya team, EWB will make repairs on its installed water harvesting system at Imurtot and scout for a new project location. The Chapter is made of…
Water is Life Kenya (WILK) experienced an extraordinary year. We celebrated the success of graduating livestock farmer groups in our Livestock as a Business program earlier in March and the launch of a new program, Hope for Widows, in July. Two new water projects got underway in Empalakai and Ilkisonko…
Our Water is Life Kenya team has led many projects across Kajiado County, Kenya, including clean water projects and Livestock as a Business (LAB) trainings. However, some women were excluded from training: impoverished women who couldn’t afford group membership fees. Often, these individuals were widows. Aware that these widows were…
Our current borehole project has given us so many smiles to the students and teachers of the Ilkisonko Boys Secondary School. Last week, we were updating you on the status of the borehole’s initial dig. We’d like to give you a closer look at part of the process of constructing…
Last week, the Water is Life Kenya (WILK) team completed drilling our newest borehole in Loitokitok, Kajiado County, for the Ilkisonko Boys Secondary School. A unique feature of this school is its location—Ilkisonko is in the highlands. Any student who attended the school in the past several decades can affirm…
Over the last couple weeks, we’ve talked about our efforts in providing food to the Maasai in Kajiado County, Kenya. A big part of our work is due to the generous ongoing contributions from our donors. But none of what we do would be possible without the hard work and…
For the past two months, we’ve discussed the drought affecting East Africa, including our work region of Kajiado County, Kenya. In essence, the past four rainy seasons have failed throughout Kenya, meaning water shortages have disrupted pasture growth and crop production. Livestock don’t have enough food to survive and are…
Drought has always been a reality for Kenyans, and all those in East Africa. But the current East African drought—resulting from four consecutive failed rainy seasons—is the worst in recent memory. In this post, we’re going to explore how we got here, what the situation on the ground is like,…
Water is Life Kenya (WILK) was founded 15 years ago by Joyce Tannian of Newark, DE and Joseph Larasha of Kenya. But founding an international nonprofit wasn’t Joyce’s initial career path. A singer by trade, she performed in different venues across the East Coast, contributing to choirs and operas as…
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