Our help in Baringo County

Our first and second visit at Baringo

In Baringo County, we visited underdeveloped communities where one of our NGO board members has had longstanding personal contact. Over the years, this member has maintained connections with the communities and regularly provided them with food. During our visit, we brought additional food and clothes to strengthen our existing relationships and help. The primary concerns in these communities revolve around food security, shelter, and access to education.

During our visit, we toured three schools, all of which had open-air kitchens without shelter, leaving them vulnerable during the rainy season. At one boarding school with approximately 50 students, they had to fetch water three times a day from an open water source shared with wild animals. This water was used for various purposes including cooking, drinking, washing clothes, personal hygiene, and classroom cleaning. Although fortunate to have classrooms, other schools lacked adequate facilities; some even utilized trees and stones as makeshift classrooms and teacher’s quarters. Moreover, many lacked desks and other essential learning materials. Water is a major concern in the area and we are working towards it.

Planned help to Baringo

Because of the tribe issues in this area, our current help is limited to food and clothes. To address the water, education and food/agriculture problems, we must be able to work in both tribes simultaneously. For this we need a larger budget.
We plan to have some people from each tribes work to in their neighboring tribe on projects we develop simultaneously. This gives certainty to the tribes that we help them both equally, and hopefully because of this, we can create a better social connection between both tribes.

We will find out if some kind of help in the weaker tribe region is possible now. For example, building a rainwater catcher(s) at the boarding school we visited. So they have less distance to go to fetch water.
In another school we want to put some strong floor-fixed school banks.
Furthermore we want to find out more about the needs of the schools. E.g. the need for more stationery.