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Livestock as Business
(LAB) Groups Since 2011, Water is Life Kenya has been training indigenous groups to be more productive livestock keepers. Click on this table for an overview of the groups. The groups marked with asterisk come from areas served by Water is Life Kenya water projects.
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Eramatare LAB Group
Group Name: Eramatare Self Help Group Number of Years With WILK: First received a loan in 2013. 2014 saw the repayment of their second loan. Group Information: Eramatare is from all around the local Group Ranch: Olchorro, Risa, Meshenani, Ilmarba, Namelok – it was started by members of one clan to help them raise money […]
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Ilaretok Men
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Group Name: Ilkiramat Loo Imisigyio Self Help Group Number of Years with WILK: Received first loan in fall of 2013. Group Information: Translated, Ilkiramat loo Imisiygio means the livestock-keepers of Imisgyio. This group is comprised of twelve women and five men, and they have just completed their first loan cycle. They are a very driven group; each […]
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Ilmarba
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Group Name: Ilmarba Livestock Group Number of Years with WILK: Ilmarba is one of the 4 original livestock groups and has received 3 loans. Group Information: Ilmarba is a smaller group, with only 10 members. The Ilmarba community is close to the Tanzanian border, where a borehole rehab was completed. (more…)
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Number of Years With WILK: Iltuati will receive their first loan this fall Group Information: This group of warriors (young men) from near Ilmarba, is led by the newly inaugurated chief of warriors, Sontika Melok. It is traditional at the inauguration ceremony to give a gift. When Larasha, WILK project manager, presented his gift to […]
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Imirishi Men
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Imisigiyio Women
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Imurtot Primary School Rainwater Harvesting Project
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Kuku Community Borehole Project
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Lenkiloriti Community Borehole Project
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Lenkisem Inkishaiki Women
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Group Name: Meshenani Livestock Keepers Self Help Group Number of Years With WILK: Meshenani was one of the original livestock groups, and first received a loan in 2011. Group Information: Meshenani is located on the north end of Amboseli park, and is one of our original water project locales. The group has 17 members […]
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Naboishu Oloilalei
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Number of Years With WILK: This is Nailepu’s first year with WILK. Group Information: a ladies group from Meshenani, made up of 18 women. They are the reformation of a beading group we worked with a few years back. This is a group of ladies always trying new ways to do business and provide for […]
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Naretoi Inkishumu Women
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Group Name: Ol Tukai Orok Self Help Group Number of Years with WILK: Ol Tukai received their first loan in 2013 Group Information: Ol Tukai Orok means the black (or dark) Palm trees, referring to trees that grow in Amboseli National Park. The group is located in Enkong’u Narok village and has 14 group members. […]
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Olepolos
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Number of Years With WILK: Olningo will received their first loan in the fall of 2015. Group Information: This new group includes 27 Ladies of all ages from ilmarba and Olmoti. They were founded by the chairlady, Soimone ene Tirina in 2011. They were inspired by the Ilmarba Livestock group and they started by contributing […]
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Olorien Women
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ONA
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Oshumu
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Number of years with WILK: This is Oshumu’s first year with WILK. Group Information: Oshumu is a mixed group from Enkong’u Narok West (as opposed to the east side where our other group is from) 4 ladies, 12 men. As we were working on the Enkong’u Narok borehole, we met the leaders of the villages […]
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Group Name: Pakiteng Number of Years with WILK: 2011-2012 Group Information: Pakiteng is a name for somebody who gives somebody else a cow. So, if I give you a cow, you’ll call me Pakiteng as a way to remember the generosity of my gift. This group started in 2012 and was trained but did […]
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Number of years with WILK: This is Risa’s first year with WILK. Group Information: Risa is a mixed group of 4 women and 9 men from Risa – they have existed as a group since 2007. They have been pursuing us for their chance to join WILK’s program for the past 2 years, never giving up […]
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Singo Women
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