Homabay County is known for having the longest fresh water shoreline from Lake Victoria in Kenya and is a rich area to conduct the business of fish. According to a recent study, the fishing industry in Homabay County employs about 3,000 people directly and has potential for creating over 150,000 jobs directly. One of the challenges facing the industry…
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The arid nature of Isinya would lead you to believe it’s practically impossible to even have a kitchen garden. Contrary to this, our customer in Isinya is an extremely happy farmer getting amazing profits from his farm all thanks to solar water pumping. It has been a year since the solar pumping system was installed…
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This year, the government of Kenya declared a national drought emergency with 23 out of the 47 counties marked. The Northern part of the country was most affected, which also experiences perennial drought. The drought often threatens both health and local food security. The current situation has left over 2.7 million people food insecure and…
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With the perennial drought experienced in the Northern part of our country, most donor communities especially the NGOs respond to this by providing relief food and rehabilitating collapsed boreholes. After the Kenyans for Kenya campaign initiative of 2012, that was led by The Kenya Red Cross, they changed the narrative from giving relief food, to…
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Martin Mbalu always had a dream of owning a restaurant which made him think of converting his home in Kitengela into a restaurant. His wife Mary was very supportive of the idea since she loved cooking. In 2010, Martin and his wife went for a vacation at Ol Tukai Lodge inside the Amboseli National Park.…
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Kajiado is a very fertile area with the potential for agriculture. However, a huge part still relies on rain water which is unreliable. Mr. Githinji started farming over year ago in his farm in Kajiado County. His greatest challenge was getting water from the borehole to the Losiani farm which is approximately 12 acres. He…
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Mr. Owuor, a homeowner in Syokimau installed a solar powered pumping system to meet his water needs. He currently has two tanks with a capacity of 70,000 liters and 30,000 liters. He gets a total of 100,000 litres of water in two days which he suppliers his neighborhood at a fee and has over 200…
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Is solar powered irrigation the answer? Many farmers in Kenya depend on the two rainy seasons in a year to grow their crops.This has been the case for a very long time now, which has resulted in consistent disappointments lately majorly as a result of climatic changes currently being experienced. Rain is no-longer dependable or…
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Energy is part of our lives and in everything we do. There are different sources of energy such as fossil fuels, oil, gas, petro, diesel, coal and hydro-electric energy which is mostly used in Kenya, we also have geothermal energy which is currently opening up in Kenya. Wind, solar and nuclear, biomass, wave and hydrogen…
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Every family needs pure water at all times for their basic household use. For Mr. Maina’s family, the salty water they were getting from the borehole was a constant problem that needed to be sorted out once and for all. The amount of money they used to buy bottled drinking water from the nearby supermarket every…
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