Project Update: A Kenyan Family Brings Hope Back Home
Here's how this Kenyan family—Charity, Michael, Michael Jr., and Nathan—brought hope back home.
Here's how this Kenyan family—Charity, Michael, Michael Jr., and Nathan—brought hope back home.
We have a lot of information to pass along about how the widows have been using their training to build their businesses, feed their families, and pay for school fees. Let's look at some of the ways Maasai women in Kenya are learning to support themselves through our Hope for Widows Program.
Our summer newsletter is hot off the press! Today, we're going to share some of the highlights in case you missed it.
Though the cultural circumstances of Maasai widows create unique situations, like widows across the globe they suffer from poverty, violence, and health problems. Let's look at the difficulties these widows face along with ways we're helping them overcome those challenges.
Soon, Michael, Nathan, their mother Charity, and their father Michael will travel to Kenya, meet with Joyce, and complete their service. We are so proud of them for having a vision, raising money, and serving their neighbors in Kenya!
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…
Less than half of all well building projects in Africa succeed over time. That’s because drilling the well is the “easy” part. After the borehole is made, the hard work begins as the community needs to manage and maintain it year-in and year-out. Water is Life Kenya’s (WILK) water projects…