Kuria Project Update - Recent Posts

It’s amazing how providing access to simple information and resources can dramatically improve the lives of the extremely poor. In February,... More...

Eleven college campuses. Over 800 students participating. Hundreds of dollars raised by students, and thousands given by benevolent donors.... More...

I may be more naïve than the rest of us, but it wasn’t until I started getting involved in this clean water awareness campaign nicknamed... More...

Nuru's farm loan program is a critical foothold program for us here in the community. The farm loan program involves Nuru purchasing high quality... More...

The Nuru team returned to Kenya in mid-January and we’ve been running 100 mph ever since.  A lot happened in the first couple weeks back... More...

I returned to the U.S. from Kenya this holiday season with a very heavy burden on my heart: we were critically short on funding for our program here... More...

No matter where you go in Kuria you'll be surrounded by kids. They seem to have a built in mzungu radar (mzungu is the term for a white person in... More...

November 19 was World Toilet Day! I was notified of this from my friends at Water Partners: "We celebrate World Toilet Day and the incredible value... More...

People have been asking what a typical day looks like for me here in Kuria, so here goes: 6:30 a.m. We wake up to the rooster crowing (oh wait, he... More...

I'm drinking a Coke, she's getting an HIV test. Let me back up. Kuria has one health care facility – the poorly equipped and understaffed... More...

Well, I hear that the sky is pretty much falling back home. With the investment banking industry going the way of the dodo, the Dow Jones fluctuating... More...

Over the past months I’ve had the absolute joy of spending some quality time with the Kurian people who have warmly welcomed me, opened up... More...

Last weekend the Nuru Grassroots Movement Team traveled to West Virginia Wesleyan College to make our debut in the NGO conference world. The... More...

A few thousand years ago the Kingdom of Israel was at war against a vicious, oppressive people called the Philistines. The two armies were camped... More...