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| This is Tumaini B camp and is the perfect example of a typical IDP camp. Sometimes there are hundreds of people living in these camps made up of temporary shelters. However, these people are not living here temporarily, this is their permanent home. |
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| Habitat For Humanity has begun building stone houses to replace these tents for those familes who have been able to purchase titles for the land. Most of the people have not been so fortunate. Nothing has been said about improving the water situation. |
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| These people were thrilled to receive even small segments of tarp which we bought for their tents. They are very gracious people. |
For 2 out of the 4 years I attended RVA (a boarding school in Kenya) I could see two IDP camps in the Great Rift Valley below everyday while walking to class or to my dorm. When I started visiting the camps during my senior year, I was overwhelmed with the lack of vital assets the people had. I often take water for granite, yet these people have no water scource of their own. They travel for miles by foot and on bikes carrying jerry cans from their village of tattered tents to the water scources. When they arrive at the local primary school in the town of Mahi Mahu at the base of the mountains, they ask for water which they are obliged to pay for.These people have lived like this for nearly 3 years following the outbreaks of tribal conflicts following the 2007/2008 election results. With God's help and under his direction, our small team hopes to one day bring the means for drilling a well in Tumaini B or another nearby IDP camp. We are planning in paying for a geological survey to been done in the areas near the camps to indicate where we can drill a suitable well possibly in a future visit to the area. The well will probably need to be deep to avoid the salty and sulphur contaminated water found in shallower aquifers. Geological surveys normally cost a several hundred dollars so a part of our budget will go to paying for this important survey.
