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The road to drought and devastation
We’ve travelled by road for 19 hours from Nairobi to Mandera, northern Kenya, where people are suffering from the worst drought seen here in 60 years. The effects of the drought were evident as we got...
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Emergency drought response programme
Today was an exciting day for us. Journalists from a number of national UK newspapers came to Mandera, northern Kenya, to see an emergency drought response programme that we’re running, with funding...
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A long walk to water
We’ve all read about how Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. But have you ever read about how people in Mandera, north eastern Kenya, can walk a round trip of up to 100 kilometres...
View ArticleMicrofinance empowering drought-hit poor
I’ve never really been interested in finance. Just the very mention of “savings and investment”, “stocks” or “retirement planning” makes my eyes glaze over. So I surprised myself with the excitement I...
View ArticleLivestock health key to drought survival
Great news – one of our projects to help poor people cope with the drought in East Africa is in the national newspapers! UK national newspaper journalists came out to Mandera, northern Kenya, to see an...
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Investing in agriculture to alleviate hunger
2011 Blog Action Day on 16 October – World Food Day – is, naturally, themed around food Food is a basic human need. Yet for many people across the world, this basic human need is not that easy to...
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I feel so strong These were the words of a woman member of the Rural Service Centre (RSC) co-operative I visited today. I didn’t get her name, which my colleagues in communications will tell me off...
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Going to work on an egg
To find out how a very small project can show so much meaning about the real values of rural poor people, which make them happy and give meaning to their lives, read about the day I made a visit which...
View ArticleMy camel milk experience
Recently I have realised that I have a powerful urge to visit my toilet. I am so attracted to it not only because of the advantages I get from the weight reduction process, but because I am also...
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Knowledge transforming livelihood
“My family needs were escalating every day and I used to wonder, what I need to do to fulfill my family needs,” says 35-year old Kamala Pandey, a resident of Kawasoti-15, Godar, Nawalparasi. Kamala...
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