Community Initiatives
| 15 October 2008
Education is a fundamental human right and has a powerful impact on the possibilities that children have to determine their future. The pastoralist communities’ economy needs to be much more fully integrated into the national economy through the development of education, which will provide a channel for off-take of people into other livelihood avenues.
| 15 October 2008
Even with advances in technology and medicine, there is an enormous gap between medical care provided in rural versus urban environments, and an even larger gap between the rural agricultural communities and the nomadic pastoralist populations that exists in Northern Kenya. Often the most basic requirements are not met, traditional practices, biases, and “geographical inaccessibility” have left the communities in Illeret without any form of viable healthcare. This adds to the daily struggle for life, caused by difficult climatic conditions, illiteracy and poverty.
