Subject: Check in on what's been happening with Water is Life Kenya
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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 18:57:49 +0000
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Visitors from Kenya, water committees training, Livestock as a Business flourishing, Kuku's well and our annual Water Walk update.

** Kenyan visitors in the land of plenty
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While hosting Dorcas Mutero, a teacher from Kenya, and my Kenyan co-founder, Joseph Larasha, I tried to see my homeland through their eyes.
What could they be thinking, feeling, being in the US for the first time?
I reflected on my own travels… even a simple thing like breakfast. We look for comfort, not experimentation first thing in the morning.
Read More (https://waterislifekenya.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WILK2018-summer-web-1.pdf)
https://waterislifekenya.com/imurtot-primary-school-rainwater-catchment-system/Imurtot Primary School Rainwater Catchment System in Place and Running

Thanks to the time and unique skills of members of the Newark Delaware Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), clean water for the children at Kenya’s Imurtot Primary School is now a reality. Read More (https://waterislifekenya.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WILK2018-summer-web-1.pdf)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tldDorq2DDk&index=3&list=LLiK16350DYNSVfNZFi4KMLwhttp://Joseph Larasha, co-founder of Water is Life Kenya, and Dorcas Mutero, a school teacher from Kenya and one of the first to benefit from a well we dug, spent 5 weeks with us this Spring.

Larasha and Dorcas came to the US to give a TEDx (Ideas Worth Spreading) talk and to support us on our annual Water Walk and other events.  Larasha’s talk, “How I learned confidence from a lion” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSop9tpxuWM&list=LLiK16350DYNSVfNZFi4KMLw&index=2) is amazing. Dorcas’ story, “Education has no age” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tldDorq2DDk&index=3&list=LLiK16350DYNSVfNZFi4KMLw) is inspiring.  Read More (https://waterislifekenya.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WILK2018-summer-web-1.pdf)

Members of the nine water management committees met as a group to discuss setting fair and appropriate prices and how they can collect enough revenue to maintain the wells and avoid service interruptions. Read More (https://waterislifekenya.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WILK2018-summer-web-1.pdf)
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A Season To Cheer About
Report: Livestock as a Business (LAB)

Livestock as a Business keepers with their cows. Finally.  Southern Kenya had ample rain during the past long rainy season and our LAB Livestock Farmer Groups profited nicely. Nine groups took the $2000 livestock loan we offer through our Livestock as a Business program and bought an average of 10 cattle each for fattening.  Abundant pastures, Water is Life Kenya sponsored water points, indigenous livestock rearing knowledge, plus the skills learned in our LAB program equipped Maasai farmers with what they needed to have fat, healthy, market-ready cattle.  Read More (https://waterislifekenya.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WILK2018-summer-web-1.pdf)

At our annual Water Walk people of all shapes and sizes came out on a glorious day to support the millions of women and girls who walk everyday for water.

This year we were honored to have Joseph Larasha and Dorcas Mutero join us from Kenya. Participants had the opportunity to meet and talk with them and hear their stories.   Hearing from Dorcas about the daily struggles she faced getting water before her community got their well was heart wrenching. Read More (https://waterislifekenya.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WILK2018-summer-web-1.pdf)

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