About Us / Kenya's People

From the Maasai in the southern Rift Valley, the Samburu in the North.

The Turkana in the arid northern frontier district. The Giriama on the coast. And the Kikuyu in the Highlands.

People have developed a resilience and humanity that has to be experienced to be believed.

Learning to live with hardship and forbearing is an everyday necessity for such people, who do not know when the next drought, livestock disease or flood may take away their crops and food, and make their lives unimaginably more difficult.

People who value their families and wider society as the security system on which they depend.

Who celebrate the bed-rock of their culture which sustains them through difficulty, in ways in which we in the west can only start to learn about. People used to foregoing food and milk so that the youngsters can eat and drink, so that there is enough for the calves, who judge the distance to the next water point and who periodically move to temporary grazing and watering camps in rhythm with the seasons.

Who celebrate and protect a spring, a reserved grazing patch for calves, and the rain.

Who worship in modern ways, yet maintain their traditional religious beliefs to forestall drought.

And who celebrate the coming together of families and clans to reinforce marriage, age set, births and deaths in ways that empower.

Come amongst these cultures and start to see the parallels with our own lives, and how although we have become materially more safe, spiritually we have lost something in our journey to modernity. That should be rediscovered in our souls.