Meet Naomi and Nayla, twelve-year old twins attending the Pimbiniet Primary School in the Maasai Mara in Kenya. Naomi and Nayla are the first girls in their family to ever attend school. Naomi dreams of one day becoming a pediatric nurse and Nayla dreams of becoming a...
Several years ago, for reasons I didn't understand at the time, I accepted an invitation to attend the first-ever rural African Women's Conference. I rearranged my entire schedule and traveled halfway around the world to meet with hundreds of women who came from all over...
Meet Naomi Chemutai. Naomi used to have to spend hours a day walking to fetch water from the nearest river – water that could make her sick at any time. Every morning and evening Naomi , her aunt and four cousins would walk the rough...
It’s that time of the year again when parents are lining the aisles of Office Depot to buy their children school supplies. It’s been estimated that parent’s pay on average $90 to get their children set up for the first day of school. Imagine, being able...
If you did not catch all of our social media posts from our most recent trip to Kenya and Uganda, here are a few highlights from our trip. First we want to tell you about some of our unstoppable students! Our students at the Pimbiniet school...
Naameka Tangus is a Kipsigis woman in the rural community of Emori Joi in the Masaai Mara region of Kenya. Traditionally, tensions exist between the Kipsigis people, who are subsistence farmers, and the Maasai, who are herders and hunters. Trespassing on their land is not...