Livestock as a Business transforms lives! Water is Life Kenya has developed clean accessible water supply for tens of thousands of people and their livestock in dozens of communities. We knew that once women had their time freed up from walking hours every day for clean water, they could use the time in so many productive ways. WILK offered the opportunity to these women to join WILK’S Livestock as a Business program to improve the way family livestock is kept, thereby to increasing incomes, improving drought resilience and providing access to scarce capital through microfinance. Below you will find the testimonials of women from our 2020-2021 program cycle of how WILK's LAB program has enriched their lives and those of their families. |
Priscilla Ene Shinina
My name is Priscilla Ene Shinina. We have started a women’s only group and it has 19 members called Oloirien group. We started 5 years ago and have been with WILK for 4 years. I have 10 children, 2 dead and 8 alive, 4 boys and 4 girls. We live at Orngosua and this is where the group is based. I am the chairlady of the group and our work in the group is so good. Before joining a group I was all alone and was having a hard time. My husband is a drunkard and I am the only one looking for school fees, food, clothes. I was getting a lot of pressure from my husband. I was confused and alone handling so many things. |
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Joyce Nderu
My name is Joyce Nderu. I live here in this place (where the video was done). This is my home (Orgnosua). I have 5 children, 3 girls and 2 boys. I have been having a lot of challenges before I met WILK and started learning about business. But I learned to save my money which I didn’t know before and even selling cows which I didn’t know about. The cow business now is good to me because I learned how to keep many different types of cows. A dairy cow and a business cow. A business cow needs you to be close to it (to care well for it) because that is the only way you can get more money. |
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Kotiyia Kamayo
My name is Kotiyia Kamayo and I am the treasurer of Sing’o Group. I have 2 children, a daughter in Form 3 (11th grade) and a son in Form 2 (10th grade) My life before Sing’o Group was bad. At home we had cows, but we don’t know the purpose of having them. Before I learn about keeping Livestock as a Business (from WILK) my cows were a very bad breed – Short and black cows. My life is now better since WILK trained us in Livestock as a Business. I have a better breed of cows, goats and sheep than before. |
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LocationWater is Life – Kenya
314 E Main St Kelway Plaza, Suite 2 Newark, Delaware 19711 (302) 894-7335 |
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