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A Partnership Worth Watering

February 28, 2012

Fred and Milton Ochieng were born and raised in Lwala. Their parents, who have now both passed away from HIV, supported the two brothers to study medicine in the United States. Now the two medical students formed the Lwala Community Alliance (LCA) to give back to their community.

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Meet Faith Owuor

November 21, 2011

Faith received her bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture at Egerton University in Kenya.  She has experience in organic farming, community organizing, rural development and project management.  She has worked for several different non-profits, including UNICEF and is dedicated to making each organization better than when she found it.     Before joining DIG, Faith worked in Sudan with Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) leading community mobilization, farmer training, agroforestry and livestock production.     Faith is from the same region where our new

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DIG ‘Garden TV’ in Kenya

November 21, 2011

By Catherine Magill, DIG Program Coordinator When you go on safari in Africa, and you’re relaxing on the porch of your tent watching the hippos and crocodiles in the river or the zebra and gazelles on the plain in front of you, your safari hosts will jokingly say that you are watching ‘Bush TV’. For those without access to safaris, DIG is undertaking to launch a new channel called ‘Garden TV’. Last week at Crossroads Springs Institute, a primary school

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DIG will be back in Kenya!

August 11, 2011

Previously, DIG has developed three separate sites in Kenya: 1) Ruiru- a Clinic south of Nairobi with Mother 2 Mothers, 2) Raila- a school in the heart of the Kibera slums, and 3) WISER girls secondary school– in Muhuru bay only a few hours from our new sites.    This fall, DIG will begin two new projects  with Crossroads Spring School and Lwala Community Hospital outside of Kisumu and Kisi, respectively.  The new projects are a unique partnership between the

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