APRIL 11, 2017, KENYA — Cheru and Kamama live in rural Kenya, and like millions of African children, they help their mothers carry water every day. Though the 5-year-olds live just 16 miles apart, for one, getting water is a three-hour struggle; for the other, it’s a seven-minute stroll. Walk with them.
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Kenya
From the Field
What’s in the water will make you sick
Monica is like millions of women in Africa who carry home dirty water from a waterhole. What’s in the water makes her children sick.
From the Field
Walk for water: Moms bear the burden when water is scarce
Two Kenyan mothers desire education, independence, and health for their daughters, but only one has assurance her daughter’s life can be better than her own.
Voices
A Kenya childhood: Growing up without clean water
Growing up in rural Kenya, Sam Irungu knew the daily struggle of collecting dirty water from the early age of 5. Today, he works as a software engineer for World Vision! He attributes this change to God: an answer to his mother’s prayer to redeem the life of God’s children for a better tomorrow.
Voices
Dennis The Prescott: I believe in a HungerFree world
Today, October 16, is World Food Day. We’re celebrating food because we believe that everyone deserves food for today and for tomorrow. After visiting Kenya with us this summer, food blogger Dennis The Prescott shares what this means to him.
Change Makers
These 5 kids grew up to be global citizens
Get inspired with these 5 stories of children around the world who grew up to be global citizens — using what God has blessed them with to pay it forward.
From the Field
Clean water lifts mother’s spirit, family’s burden
In a remote Maasai village in rural Kenya, Naomi used to walk and wait for hours to gather unsafe water from a spring they shared with livestock and wild baboons.
From the Field
Olympic couple finds purpose beyond gold medals
Meeting the child they sponsor gave Olympians Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton a deeper motivation to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio.
Voices
Knit one, bless two
When author Debbie Macomber looked around at the needs in this world, it could feel overwhelming. She asked, “What can I do?” The answer was, “We can knit.”
Change Makers
Turning tears of compassion into transformation
When Arkansas pastor David Johnson went to Kenya, he had no idea that his life, his wife, his children, and their church would never be the same.