Adipo Lodeng’o and his younger cousin Tiliot Lonrokemer lost their dreams of ever going to school from a tender age. On the eve of ActionAid’s 40 years celebrations in Tangulbei, a thought crossed...
The rivers are flowing and the grass is finally green in Kongelei, the pastoralist community in North Western Kenya. Here, I mostly meet women and children, as many men have left the villages in...
Every year, countries that have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gather to discuss next steps on fighting the climate crisis. This year, 194 countries...
Parents’ approval of forced, under-age marriages and general acceptance of domestic violence and corporal punishment are major obstacles to girls in sub-Saharan Africa completing their primary...
There are so many things we take for granted, but not for the students of Makima Primary School who treasure their lunch meal exceptionally. The school lies in the Eastern parts of Kenya in Makima in...
The drought has forced Lonineo Sabaya (33) to give up life as a pastoralist on the plains of Northern Kenya. In order to earn money, he has been forced to take up a job as a guard and coal salesman,...
Sakota Guyo has witnessed years of cyclic droughts and the devastation that seeps in with them. He is sixty years old, and as people in other arid parts of Kenya queue for relief food to help them...
As the world marked World Food Day last Sunday, Kenya becomes the first country to sign up for the End Extreme Hunger Charter. The Charter which ActionAid and a number of NGOs have...
October 16th is World Food Day. A day to pause and reflect on where our food comes from and give thanks to the Farmers of the world. Thank you to all the Farmers who grow food using sustainable and...
'Maji ni Uhai' - water is life. These were the words Samwel Njogu Munywa and his wife Gladys Muthoni greeted us with, as we entered their compound in Karudas village, Thego location in Kieni...
I could feel the sweat trickling down my neck. It was 8 am in the morning and the scorching sun of Northern Kenya was high above me; the heat wave seeping energy from every living thing in...
During our days assessing the impact of the drought in Sericho District, we stayed in a town called Modogashe. It is a sleepy town that is divided by a large sand bank riddled with large craters....
We’re on our way to drought-stricken Isiolo from Nairobi to see the work that ActionAid is doing in response to the drought. In the past couple of hours, the view out of our car window has changed...
When ActionAid set up an office in Kwale district in 1999 one of the biggest challenges was lack of access to schools. With an enrolment rate of merely 10 percent and literacy levels of seven percent...
Three months after my first visit, I’m back in the Dakatcha Woodlands in Kenya’s coast region. Here, I’m seeing the dirty side of EU policies – one that EU officials sat in their comfy offices back...
