ACK Baragoi ICDC officially open!

On January 8, 2024, we opened our 14th Integrated Child Development Center in Baragoi in partnership with the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK). Baragoi has seen it’s share of instability and this effort is key to the continuation of peace building efforts between the Samburu and Turkana communities who often find themselves at odds over territory and grazing rites in this semi-arid region of Northern Kenya.

On the day of the opening, close to 60 children were enrolled! A staff of two teachers and a cook together with the ICDC committee of the local parish will maintain operations. We are so very grateful to the Gary Moser Fund for Africa for their support of this project.

Lochoresekon Gets a Dining Pavilion

Our Northernmost ICDC to date is in Turkana, an extremely arid region where trees and shade are very sparse. Mid January saw us engaged in the construction of our first dedicated dining pavilion which will offer shade for meals as well as for community meetings.

A Permanent Water Supply in Sisit!

Drilling boreholes, installing solar powered submersible pumps, and providing simple water filters and handwashing stations are all part of the infrastructure of our ICDC hubs. After years of experimenting with various methods of water delivery to our Sisit project, and after our most recent effort was destroyed by catastrophic flooding of the WeiWei river, through the help of many friends and the Heritage Mission Fund we were finally able to drill a borehole and equip a solar pumping unit to transport water up the mountain some 2 km away for use at our school and the surrounding community! The water is also used to irrigate the kitchen garden and the tree nursery that our unit uses to feed children and supply seedlings to surrounding homesteads.

Water is life!

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Water is life! 〰️

supplies all around!

The year begins with supply rounds and visits to each center by our Kenya Programs Manager, Mark Okello. This year he was accompanied by Simon Lokurchana, our new Change for Children Coordinator. Mark and Simon were kept busy delivering treated mosquito nets, uji (porridge) and other food and general school supplies. This year we were thrilled to add our newly published book called “Let’s Plant a Happy Tree” to the portfolio of supplies.