Bring HOPE & TRANSFORMATION to Kenyans with a Year-End Gift

About WILK's Hope & Transformation Campaign

For 17 years, we have developed a comprehensive approach to transformation through our effective, capacity-building programs, namely: Planning for Pasture (new); Hope for Widows; Livestock as a Business; and, our hallmark projects, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene. We are able transform one life, then another, then a village, then entire communities.

Our generous donors have powered our most impactful year ever! But there’s no time to rest. More women, men, and families need to be part of this wave of change.

To fulfill the growing need for our program offerings, we have set the ambitious goal of raising $250,000 for this year-end campaign. With your help, it will be possible.

This is what 2025 could look like with your support:

• No more thirst for thousands of families.
• No more marginalization and hopelessness for a hundred widows and their families.
• No more death during drought for livestock.
• No more standing powerless before problems.

WILK Co-Founder, Joyce Tannian, and Hope for Widows Group 2 participant, Mary, smile at the Goats & Grants ceremony in August, 2024.

Our New Program, Planning for Pasture, builds on the success of Livestock as a Business.

Before WILK began this program, the livelihoods of the Maasai were constantly threatened by livestock losses brought on by drought, poor livestock, and unorganized grazing management. A grazing management plan works because cattle eating grass in blocks means grass lasts longer, cows keep their body condition, and family income is secure.

This is what we’ve accomplished in just a few months:

• Pasture is still available and income from livestock is stable.
• Families know how many cattle they have, how much grass they need, and can conserve pasture to keep their cattle healthy.
• Neighboring communities see it and have adopted similar pasture management plans to conserve grass.

There are still more communities where management of livestock and pasture is poor. This transformative training will ensure they don’t lose all their livestock in the future.

WILK Co-Founder, Joseph Larasha, leading a Planning for Pasture training in Ilmarba / Olmoti.

Now in its third year, the Hope for the Widows Program is changing the lives of marginalized women and their families.

Before WILK introduced the Hope for Widows (HFW) Program, women without husbands often had to beg for food or money for their children’s school fees.

This is how widows have transformed over the last three years:

• More than 100 widows are self-sufficient and prosperous.
• Saving the profits they earn has become a habit, and they are building better lives for themselves.
• Through improved incomes, children are well-fed and stay in school.
• Every time we meet the widows for training or monitoring, more women show up, begging to join our program.

When we support women’s economic empowerment, first families, then entire communities, are transformed. Through savings, families build safer homes for better living and learning environments.

Tayiana, a Group 3 widow, being handed goats from her brother-in-law, a gov’t chief whose mother was a widow.

Our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene are breaking ground in new regions.

Our projects continue to provide reliable water supplies because WILK knows that the key to long term sustainability of boreholes is cash flow and stable well management.

Here are some highlights from our successful program:

• In 2024, we opened our 30^th water project.
• More than 100,000 people have access to clean water.
• 85% of our projects are still functional due to the focus on income-generation and conflict resolution.
• Water Management Leaders are trained to handle a variety of problems as well to maintain the borehole itself.

Even as we cross completed projects off the list, the waiting list for communities needing water keeps growing. Communities hear about the clean water projects your donations support, and they want the same transformation for themselves.

YOUR CONTRIBUTION, we will be able to expand our work to meet the demand for our transformative programs. YOU can transform a family’s life by supporting these impactful programs and set the ripple effect of change in motion!

Test pumping in Olmoti, the site of the Global Linkages Water Project.

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