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Hard Work, Hope & a World of Strong Women: Isiolo.
Paulina Eken, picking vegetables off her farm in Ngare Mara. Photo by John Kisimir/©ActionAid Kenya
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Paulina Eken, picking vegetables off her farm in Ngare Mara. Photo by John Kisimir/©ActionAid Kenya
“We have always been self-sufficient and suddenly found ourselves with no work and no support. It was a hopeless situation”
Communities living in arid and semi-arid areas in Kenya have traditionally relied on pastoralism for their livelihood but diminishing pasture land and protracted drought attributed to climate change