When times are hard, when drought has taken almost everything people have, lunch becomes an especially happy time in the school day. With very limited water supplies (all brought into the school each day in 20lt cans) washing hands before lunch is closely monitored by the older children and the grey water saved for other …
This afternoon a lorry full of hay for the zebras arrived at the school. This was very exciting for the kids, both because they would be able to save more zebra, but also because it was a LORRY! We don’t see many lorries round here. We are storing the grass where ever we can find …
The zebras around our school are dying of starvation, every day we find more casualties. The marsh they (and the community) have always relied upon to get them through the droughts has, for the first time in living memory, dried up. There are approximately 60 zebra that have become confined to the area that was …
The last 2 years have been very difficult for the community surrounding Olng’arua School. Violence has resulted in two thirds of the people who lived here being displaced, houses and possessions destroyed, livestock stolen and lives lost. The community was totally unprepared for the violence. Though there have been occasional periods of insecurity in the …
The brilliant children’s author Daniel Kirk has sent Olng’arua School more books. The delivery included copies of his new book ‘Rhino in the House’, telling the wonderful true story of the baby rhino saved by Anna Merz, here in Kenya. It is very fitting that the books should arrive in time for world rhino day. …
Trying to keep the school vegetable patch alive when we have to carry all water to the school in buckets and containers is proving hard, but all the ‘grey water’ gets given to the plants and they are hanging in there.
The Lion group are the oldest kids in the school and they help out around the school in many ways. Here they are serving milk to the squirrel group (the youngest children in the school) during milk break.
In the village on the border of Isiolo and Laikipia counties the last two weeks have been relatively quiet. With just a few minor livestock raids in the area and whole days without the sound of gunfire, by the standards everybody has become used to, this has been a peaceful time. It is a blessed …
Dear Friends, I wanted to let you know that despite the problems here, in our part of Kenya, everyone at the school is safe and well. There is still a great deal of insecurity in the area, we are desperately short of water and food is becoming scarce in the community but, despite all this, …
