The latest on our work and those supporting it
TWP demonstrates commitment to Turkana as Public Health Campaign gets under way
Back in January I wrote a blog piece detailing the beginnings of our Public Health Campaign in Turkana, Northern Kenya. You can read that piece here. A couple of months later, and things are really starting to move. James Lobokan is coordinating the campaign from Lodwar Town, and his latest report really gives an […]
TWP embarks on Public Health Campaign in Northern Kenya
TWP has been slowly working towards establishing a presence in Northern Kenya for a couple of years. During this time we’ve brought clean water to both the House of Hope Orphanage as well as Kakiring Community. Working in Northern Kenya is a challenge, conditions are tough and success is not guaranteed. Mobilising equipment from Nairobi […]
My Heart Will Not Sit Down
What are you reading this summer? A great spy novel perhaps? A mystery that has you on the edge of your seat, reading long into the night when you should be sleeping? Here at The Water Project we have a reading list. We challenge each other with concepts from the books we read. Books on […]
TWP catch up with Kakiring Community in Northern Kenya
Posted by Jack Owen, TWP WASH Program Manager. 14 May 2012 I spent most of last year living in Kenya. A lot of that time I was working directly with our partner organisations, working through program strategies and contributing to project proposals. It was a very fruitful time, and led to new relationships as well […]
Chats with Jack – Monthly Calls with Colleges and Universities
In the late autumn of 2011 we started meeting via Webex each month with students from colleges and universities all over the country. Our goal? To connect them to other like-minded peers and leaders who are interested in being a part of the solution to the economic water crisis that keeps millions without access to […]
Smiles are only the beginning
The most amazing this about this photograph is that it doesn’t even begin to tell the story of what will happen in this place. Yet, so often, we get caught up in images like these. Don’t get me wrong, there is every reason to. The first drops of clean, safe water for a school bring […]
Changamwe urban sanitation project taking shape!
I’ve been spending quite a lot of time with a men’s support group in Changamwe recently, an informal urban settlement on the main Nairobi road out of Mombasa. They have developed a proposal for a sanitation block in their community, involving three or four flush toilets and a shower. The idea is that people will […]
Sand dams and other miracles
In some areas of Kenya – like where I live in Coast Province, finding clean water is almost impossible. With little rain and salty groundwater, people travel for miles with jerry cans to find fresh springs or river beds where they can dig for water. For us, the question is often not “Do we want […]
Addressing urban WASH issues in Informal Urban Settlements
Yesterday I visited an Informal Urban Settlement in Mombasa, in an area called Likoni. Informal Urban Settlements, or slums, are areas characterised by poor housing and squalor, where the population lack official land tenure rights. Globally, more than 1 billion people live in slums, a figure that is rising all the time as people move […]
Are Water User Associations working?
I recently had a meeting with a local NGO here in Coast Province called Community Link International. They are a small and embryonic team, primarily made up of Margaret and Musyoka, with a couple of part time field staff. They’ve been registered as an NGO for about a year, but can collectively draw upon a […]