Women are always at the front line of poverty, especially in rural areas. Northern Kenya is no exception, they feed the family, are responsible for finding water, collecting firewood and building the houses. Culture and poor access to family planning means that they can easily have eight children by the time they are thirty. Traditionally …
In The Shackled Continent journalist Robert Guest outlines various reasons for African poverty. He refers to a Peruvian economist, Hernando de Soto. This man has estimated that the value of what he calls ‘dead capital’ in poor countries, property that can not be capitalised because there are no title deeds, is roughly forty times the …
Craignish Primary School, in a little village on the west coast of Scotland, took the time to raise money for Oling’arua school.
Robert and Lili Levy have generously donated a second Farm Kit, this time to Kipsing School. The Farm Kit comprises a greenhouse, a drip irrigation system, water tank, seeds and fertilizer, it also comes with a years training. At Kipsing School the Farm Kit will be a teaching resource and a source of fresh vegetables …
On the 18th of July Jonny, DARE’s technical guru and most dedicated supporter, begins an epic bike ride from his home in Edinburgh to our base in Isiolo, Kenya. I am extremely jealous. Not only will he be meeting interesting people and sampling all kinds of culinary delights along the way (living in a region …