Our focus
Benga Parish, Malawi
The project includes:
320 students at our primary school
200 pit latrines built at 20 schools serving 12,000 students
20,000 children reached by our food program
92 boreholes drilled supplying water to 6,500 families and 10,000 students
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We fund the running costs and maintenance of 26 nutritional rehabilitation centres for children aged 2 – 5 years old. The focus of these centres is to provide each child with nutrition, clean water and an opportunity for them to learn basic skills. More recently we have embarked on an agricultural programme to ensure every NRC will eventually be able to grow some food for its own use.
Access to health services is severely limited in the region of Kenya where New Ways projects are located. The work we support there includes a mobile clinic and a primary health care programme that ensures even the remotest communities are able to benefit from health care and medical services including seminars and training that help reduce the incidence of disease.
Education is recognised in the developed world as the single most influential factor that benefits the economic and social wellbeing of a country and its people. So too in the two countries where we are running programmes at the moment: Ethiopia and Turkana in Northern Kenya. We believe access to education at all levels is key to the empowerment and eventual independence of the communities we support.
The provision of water is essential to the survival of all people. A key aspect of the work we do, predominately in Turkana, is to fund the Gillingham bore holes, construction of rock and earth pan dams, as well as other infrastructure that brings benefits to many communities among the Nomadic and semi-Nomadic people there. We are also developing water projects in Ethiopia and Malawi.
Lake Turkana is the largest desert lake in the world covering 6,750 square kilometres, approximately four times the size of London. It supports a rich wildlife and almost 50 species of fish. Around the north western shores of the Lake in Turkana, fishing is a valuable source of food and livelihood. The Fishing Programme we support helps to build and repair boats and provide training in boat maintenance and business skills.
The nomadic and semi-nomadic people of Turkana in North West Kenya are mainly pastoralists wandering the vast inhospitable plains in search of food and water for their communities and livestock. This makes them particularly vulnerable to drought and famine. Over the past four years we have been supporting the introduction of small scale farming to these communities that will in time help provide an additional and sustainable source of food and economic independence while helping to reduce the impact of drought and reliance on aid.
To ensure that real empowerment of the people in Turkana is sustainable it is vital to provide training and skills for the leaders of these communities. Our community leadership funding helps to support regular skills seminars across the region and the establishment of infrastructure to support the communities in the long term management of their projects.
We are also engaged in supporting infrastructure projects in Ecuador and South West Ethiopia. These are to provide much needed services to the local communities.
Example projects

Saint Peter Health Centre, South Sudan
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Nariokotome PHC and Mobile Clinic
Aim: Improvement of Maternal Child health care and provision of Primary health care Services of the population under Nariokotome territory

Health programme with mobile outreach in Lobur – Vitamin A project
Facilitating access to health care During 2022, the Health Programme based in Lobur, Turkana North has continued improving the services

Saint Peter Health Centre, South Sudan
In 2023, UNDP classified South Sudan as the last country worldwide in the development index. This is backed up when

Nariokotome PHC and Mobile Clinic
Aim: Improvement of Maternal Child health care and provision of Primary health care Services of the population under Nariokotome territory

Health programme with mobile outreach in Lobur – Vitamin A project
Facilitating access to health care During 2022, the Health Programme based in Lobur, Turkana North has continued improving the services

A tale of two sisters
This is the encouraging, important, and heartwarming story of Caroline and Scolastica Epokor, twin sisters from a family of Turkana

Education sponsorship in Kenya and Malawi
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Girls education in Turkana County
Aiming to educate girls Turkana County is a long way short of the targets for educating girls. Our support helps

Empowering women through agriculture
Turkana, Kenya This project aims at educating and training women on agricultural skills and increasing nutritional knowledge in the wider

Purchase and distribution of seedlings
Salima and Nkotakota Districts, Malawi Aim To ensure that families in the Benga area have access to the seedlings and

Furrows in the Desert
Furrows in the Desert is a community-based long-term agricultural development programme Aim To introduce agriculture in the ASAL area of

Water supply for herders and fishermen through drilling a well
Kapedor, Turkana, Kenya Aim To improve the quality of life in the area by increasing the possibility of local resources

Provision of potable water to Nayenakabaran Village
Turkana, Kenya Introduction The water project in Nayenakabaran village has been a huge relief for the residents of the lakeside

Solar pump installation to provide clean water supply
Dingimo, Sudan The core objective of the project was to provide people in Dingimo with reliable access to clean drinking

Construction of Assembly Hall
Naturomoe, Ethiopia Aim To construct assembly hall for use by the community Result Assembly hall constructed and ready for use

Assisting families to have basic lighting
Nkhotakota District, Malawi Aim To improve rural community’s lives by facilitating access to a basic and reliable source of light

Furrows in the Desert
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