The road trip to Ririma village was long and dusty, the desert hot and desolate. We stopped at a watering point in Kambinye village when we noticed pastoralists fetching water with their animals. We spoke to a lady who said that she and her entire village were forced to leave their home and head south. They had walked for about 30 kilometers in search of water, food and suitable pastures for their families and animals.
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Clean water is already hard to come by in the Korogocho (Swahili for shoulder to shoulder) slums of Nairobi, but when heavy rainfall leads to flooding, it only exacerbates the situation. Clean water sources get contaminated, leaving residents vulnerable to many risks, including waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid.
Akai Akiru, 40, walks across these dusty plains a few hours outside of the capital of Turkana County, Lodwar in May 2017. She fetches water somewhere beyond the distant horizon. It takes her three hours to walk there, and three hours to get back, carrying the full 5-gallon jug on her head. This sums up her entire day. She is too tired to do anything else. She, her husband and three children survive on each day's water she brings and wild doum palm fruit, she said.
Turkana, in northern Kenya, has been hit by a massive drought for over a year, triggered and worsened by the effects of El Nino. Under a program called Kenya Resilient Arid Lands Partnership for Integrated Development (Kenya-RAPID), funded by USAID and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), CRS is the lead NGO in Isiolo and Turkana Counties working with Catholic Church dioceses to support the county governments as they develop their capacities to sustainably tap and exploit precious water reserves in Kenya's Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, or ASALs. Substantial water supplies lie below ground, so using them responsibly and maintaining them at the county level is key to the economic development of these traditionally marginalized lands. In the ASALs, crop farming is possible only along riverbeds and/or with irrigation, so livestock is a mainstay of the economy. Ensuring access to water for livestock and people is a major pillar of the program.
Location and date the photo was taken- Kwang'ethe Primary school on 2nd June 2020
Who is depicted in the photo-from right Muriuki Thiga, Lucy, James Gitau
What activity is depicted in the photo-planting of an indigenous tree
How the activity addresses climate change-Trees play a key role in the carbon cycle by utilising carbon iv oxide from the atmosphere as well as are key contributors of rain water from evapo-transpiration
Names of partner organizations involved in the program-Rotary District 9212 encironment programme, UNEP, Elephant Center, county Governments in Kenya.
In the arid regions of northern Kenya, groundwater boreholes are providing increased climate resilience and water security. In this picture, local communities access water from solar powered borehole systems funded by USAID.
Students from St. Scholastica Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya, presenting their findings on relating varying weather patterns to malaria occurrences from mosquito habitat mapping within Lake Victoria region in Kenya during SERVIR East and Southern Africa 2019 Space Challenge for Primary and Secondary Schools.
Subject: Gordon Mumbo Location: Mara River, Kenya Date: July 10, 2018 Gordon Mumbo is team leader for the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP), USAID’s flagship water program along the Mara River. According to Mumbo, this knowledge-sharing exercise is a two-way street; SWP educates communities on water risk and conservation, while the communities provide invaluable local perspective. It’s not just the atmosphere of transboundary cooperation that sets SWP’s work apart. It’s also the sense of ownership Mumbo and his team are cultivating in the people of the Mara, from community members to government officials to private sector representatives. “The river belongs to the people who live along it,” Mumbo concludes. “They understand the river better than anybody else. They will be able to own it and work with you at sustaining it. If you want to manage the river, you must involve the people.”
In the arid regions of northern Kenya, groundwater boreholes are providing increased climate resilience and water security. In this picture, nomadic pastoralists and their camels access groundwater.
Women of the Laisamis Manyata village in Marsabit county in Kenya discuss climate variability, community vulnerability, and adaptation mechanisms in their community during an assessment exercise in the Northern Kenya Rangelands in 2018.
This photo was captured in Biliqo-Bulesa Community of Isiolo County in Kenya during a field assessment of community vulnerability and adaptation to climate variability in 2018. The Acacia tree under which they shelter at peak sun hours drop highly nutritious seed pods that the animals eat before they embark on grazing in the late afternoon or evening when the sun goes down.
Men of Merille Manyata village in Marsabit County in Kenya map their community resources as they discuss Climate variability, community vulnerability, its impact and adaptation mechanisms in their Melako community Conservancy during an assessment exercise in the Northern Kenya Rangelands in 2018.
Trees for the Future technicians and trainers undergo a weeklong Training of Trainers seminar before teaching farmers how to plant themselves out of hunger and poverty. The educational seminar focuses on the science of agroforestry and permaculture as well as how best to work with farming groups in a productive and effective way. Shirima (pictured) and the other technicians spend time learning theory and hands-on skills. By educating the trainers, Trees for the Future ensures that farmers receive the best education as well.
Nairobi, 2018
Seedball germination - young acacia tree seedlings coming up strongly in an old charcoal making burn site near the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Southern Kenya.
Repairing and restoring the dry rangelands in Kenya is key to helping insulate these precious ecosystems from the worst effects of climate change.
Reducing the cost of doing it is a huge bonus!
Excavator in Kenya
Credit East Africa Trade and Investment Hub Nairobi Business Commercial District, seen from Kenyatta International Conference Center.
Women and children are most burdened by conflicts arising from scarcity of water resources. By protecting Alakara Shallow Well in Isiolo County, USAID ensured availability of water for communities and their livestock thereby reducing conflict and enhancing peaceful co-existence among communities living in Isiolo County.