Making Lemonade!

You’ve heard the saying, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!” That’s exactly what we tried to do in 2021 during another long year of the COVID pandemic. As school schedules continued to be disrupted, we took the opportunity afforded by the mandated closures to renovate 6 of our Integrated Child Development Center units, construct 2 new classrooms, 12 pit latrines and 1 new kitchen! We also wrapped up installation of our 3rd “Trees for Life” tree nurseries, all of which enabled us to plant 1200 trees in project locations. Finally, we were able to upgrade an existing borehole with a new solar pump and array and facilitate the refurbishment of “Luca’s Crossing,” a vital suspended bridge crossing the Talek river in the Mara region that had been slightly damaged by flooding the year before,

The pandemic related closures and adjustments have been hard on communities, leading us to respond to food insecurity related needs with distributions of 31,000 kgs of maize and beans plus 520 liters of cooking oil, this in addition to our usual fortified porridge, school supplies and mosquito nets. In the midst of all of this, our ICDC units combined eventually managed to “graduate” an additional 300+ students toward primary school!

All of this has been made possible because of the consistent, generous support of our partners. Thank you!

Lemonade is good!