Women in rural Eastern Kenya have many people depending on them. They are the carers for their children, the main breadwinners, homemakers and are responsible for all the domestic chores. None of the families have their own natural collection of water. They walk an average of 20km a day to...
How many times do you visit your toilet each day? How much loo roll do you use? How many times do you wash your hands afterwards then leave the bathroom and continue with your day? It’s hard for us to imagine a world in which toilets are a scarce and...
I sponsor a girl known as S. She lives in a small tribal village in rural Kenya with her Grandmother. Their home is a single room mud hut with a dirt floor and a corrugated iron roof. She doesn’t know her father. In Kenya there is a culture of men...
Today is International Day of Charity. A day that recognises the vital role that charity plays in alleviating human suffering. A year ago this month we set out on the nerve-wracking journey of building Speak 31 from the ground up using nothing more than our overwhelming desire to help make...
“The girl with her period is the one to hang her head”. In Kenya menstruation is shameful and dirty. Women and girls on their periods are isolated from society. They must sit separately; they are forbidden from working the family’s livestock for fear that they will contaminate them. They...
‘We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone’. When thoughts collide, circumstances align, passion is ignited, and seeds of faith and trust are watered, by the grace of God something special can grow. Seven months ago three children living in extreme poverty came into our lives. Their homes in...
'You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.' (John 4:10) It's midnight in Kayole. Night has fallen once again on a slum village home to...
