There is no mains water in Olng’arua or any of the surounding villages, and no piped water in any of the homesteads. The water comes from the river, if there isn’t any water in the river, there isn’t any water. During the dry season the river gradually retreats back towards its source in the Ngare …
Follow this valley down and you will eventually come to Olng’arua School, it is in the distance down on the far plains.
Since the attack on the school I have often been asked about the violence here. What the is violence about? Why are they attacking things like schools? Isn’t raiding just about cows? I came across a statistic that helps answers some of these questions. The livestock industry in Kenya (largely unregulated and under reported) is …
Olng’arua boys. A sometimes cheeky, but largely cheerful lot. I admire the older ones in particular, for coming to school each day, when there is so much pressure on them from outside to skip school and be ‘men’. That generally means herding livestock but can also end up turning into doing bad things, and trouble. …
Thank you to everyone who has been helping us to rebuild our library by sending us books. If you want to help, if you have a book at home that your kids loved but have grown out of, you can pop it in an envelope and send it to us, where it will get loved …
In our current circumstances, it is the older kids that it is most difficult for us to support properly. Yet in many ways this is the very group that needs the most help. Younger kids need comfort and food, if they get that they are generally happy. These older children, 12 to 16, have more …
A group selfie from Irene who was teaching at the school today.