Project Co-ordinator
Joseph is 41 years old and he has been working with the Missionary Community for 10 years but has been living in Turkana for much longer – about 23 years and is from down country where life is not so hard as in Turkana. He has two children, a 7 year old boy (pictured, with Joseph) and a 11 year old girl.
Joseph is the Kaikor project co-ordinator – this project involves a number of Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres with the objective of feeding over 1200 children every year for at least three years, improving the life expectancy of children under 7 years and providing the children’s community with health care and agricultural skills
Joseph is enthusiastic about the impact of the project on the development of the people and on the children. People are much healthier and that has really helped. The project is really making a difference.
What other changes would he like to see? Two things – an investment in the agriculture and some small bikes to help the lives of the teachers so that they can go around and visit the sick mothers.
What is his view of New Ways and the Missionary Community? One of the things he said was the Missionary Community are doing a lot more for Turkana than the government (echoing the points made by Lord Alton in his House of Lords speech reported above). The project New Ways and the Missionary Community are doing is a great help to Turkana especially the northern arid areas and the people really appreciate the support and help and very much hope it will continue for a long time. He thinks that the way that New Ways supports the community is ‘just fantastic’.
