New Ways supports projects in Kenya, Ethiopia and Mozambique. The majority of our funding goes to an area of northern kenya called Turkana.

Turkana is an arid area about the size of Ireland with a population of around 500,000 mostly semi-nomadic tribes-people, called the Turkana. In the recent past there have also been waves of refugees who have come to escape the war in southern Sudan.

The region is susceptible to drought and there have been several major periods of drought in recent decades including a three year drought from 1993 to 1996.

The effect of drought on the population can be devastating as they rely on the animals they keep, mostly goats and camels, for survival. When water is scarce for prolonged periods the animal population can be decimated and the people suffer malnutriton and starvation.

One of New Ways main objectives is to help alleviate these problems by building water resource infrustructure including rock catchment dams, shallow wells and boreholes.

We are also working to reduce the instance of child mortality through a network of nutritional rehabilitation centres that supply food to over two and half thousand children at centres throughout the region.