It’s incredible …. it’s unbelievable… Its REAL!… You just need to go back in my blogs to believe how bad it got! WE ARE THROUGH THE TUNNEL of DARKNESS …. of DROUGHT and we MUST LEARN FROM IT! The last month or so has been the most extraordinary feeling.. There seems to be a sense […]
I know I’ve said before that the rains have come and its the end of the drought BUT I think this time its for real!!! already by the end of March its more than we’ve had for a LOOOOOONG TIME!!! I just want you all to know that the relief is UNBELIEVABLE.. Its amazing what […]
BIODIVERSITY!.. living together, using each other to stay alive.. how ever we want to call it! … I thought this bumble bee homing in on a flower was a nice start! To survive the bee needs the flower and the flower needs the bee.. LIVING IN NATURE.. Here’s a nice story.. For many years this […]
The DOWN of course is the everlasting drought Northern Kenya seems to be enduring.. The UP is the incredible resilience shown by the people and animals, wild and tame living there!! DOWNS.. we’ve had some terrible fires in the mountains.. Our valuable water towers.. This fire on the south side of the Ndotos destroying an […]
‘They’ all say its not going to rain… This is unfathomable, a completely unthinkable thought.. Every one and every thing is suffering.. Animals, wild and domestic and humans, the trees, bushes, the mountains, the deserts… every thing.. It should be pouring with rain by now BUT IT IS NOT!!??? Elephants are now dyeing in numbers… […]
Lene Maria lost her life on Utoyia Island about 11 years ago in the most terrible mass shooting imaginable.. She was just 18 and already putting her mind to helping others, and she started really showing interest in water issues in Northern Kenya.. The Bergum family in her memory started the ‘Lene Maria for clean […]
We are all aware of the drought in East Africa.. In our area the rains have been very sporadic and patchy for well over two years now…. ‘its keeping us all on our toes’ and we just keep thinking positive thoughts for rain, and lots of it !! In the mean time I have been […]
The People of Samburu really, really are incredibly grateful to TEAM PANKAJ for finding the food, packing it into beautiful waterproof bags, transporting it the 400 kms to Samburu county… Apparently 10000 bags… Out of that 6000 bags x 22 kgs of nourishing goodies which the Milgis had the pleasure of distributing!!… The story!! of […]
Every one was hoping when Jupiter and Venus passed each other it was going to bring the rain?? (You can see them above Mt Kenya .. Jupiter below Venus above..) AND IT DID COME.. the next day huge puffy thunderous clouds, lots of noise, massive downpours in patches!.. Floods and all.. BUT two days later […]
ALTHOUGH SADLY NOT A GREAT START… Just to give you a birds eye view of the start of this year… So many ups and downs… In my last blog I was so thrilled as the rains had finally arrived, BUT sadly they were VERY short lived, weak, and patchy so now we are back at […]
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