En Turkana los camellos, los burros y las cabras son los animales que han sobrevivido a las sequias . La sangre de cabra mezclada con leche es el alimento más común entre los Turkanos.

Para un niño Turkana, el AGUA no solo es aquello que quita la sed, son las chucherías que nunca a visto ni comido, es el alimento cuando no hay comida y sobretodo es la posibilidad de seguir viviendo.

Poblado Turkana, las mujeres excavan 3 metros en la tierra para poder conseguir un poco de agua.

Lago de la Casa de Campo en Madrid, ( no tiene mecanismo de cierre)

Posiblemente la mujer Turkana que aparece en la fotografia, no pueda ni imaginar que en otros países existen unas cosas llamadas fuentes, la mayoría rotas con grifos donde sale agua durante toda la noche y todo el día, con litros y litros y litros de agua que se despilfarran y nadie hace nada, bueno sí MIRARLAS.

Estos son los zapatos de un niño turkana, fabricados con neumáticos y las diferentes partes se unen con clavos, increible pero cierto y eso el que tiene la suerte de poder tenerlos !!!!!!.

Los niños turkanas fabrican sus propios juguetes, este es el ejemplo de un coche hecho con alambre, una auténtica obra de ingeniería porque las ruedas giran en ambos sentidos……….

I have always believed that things in life do not happen by chance, but that instead everything has a reason and a purpose. In 2007, due to a very important event in my own life, I felt that I had to give something back in return for everything life had given me, because the fact is that after giving it some thought I understood just how lucky I was to have been born at this time and in this country. I also realised that I had the time and the desire to help other people and, selfishly I admit, that was going to make me very happy, and so indeed it has.

It so happened that someone I occasionally lent a hand on this quest to help the Turkana people called me to arrange a get-together at a cafeteria in Madrid one November afternoon in 2008 so that I could meet two aspiring young priests from the community of missionaries who live and work in Turkana.

The meeting lasted around half an hour and those two people managed to make me see how that area suffered from a general lack of resources; they started talking about the scarcity of water and ended up showing me a document about the project for building a school for 250 children in a village called Kokuro.

As soon as that person showed me the document I felt inside me that I had found what I had been seeking for a whole year and that that person had come a long way to see me and personally hand me something that I could touch and see.

As I drove home in my car I felt so happy that rarely have I experienced such a feeling of peace and happiness as I did on that 20-minute journey.

That’s how it happened and I’ve wanted to tell you because I’d love you to feel the same as I do helping other people, not necessarily to have more opportunities but to have the same ones as we do, respecting their culture and traditions.

Through this weblog you will be able to follow the project’s progress, getting to know the Turkana people and the people who help them and live alongside them, and you will be able to tell your children and other people you know so that they too can become involved in the project.

Cancer brought a great treasure in my life, VITALA Project to bring happiness to many people including me.

Silvia Florez

• Turkana is in north-west Kenya, on the western shores of the lake
• It is a semi-desert area with devastating cycles of drought and major water shortages.
• 77,000 km2, frontier with Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda. To the north, the Turkana District with a population of 500,000 people.
• The project is to be undertaken in the north of Turkana in the Ilemi Triangle, with 13,000 km2 and 15,000 inhabitants.

The North of Kenya is a hot, dry desert that has been gouged out by volcanic activity with ancient lava flows and petrified pine trees as far as the eye can see. Survival is restricted to only the most resilient animal species, and to those unique nomadic peoples that cross this part of the world with their camel trains.

Poblado Turkana- Turkana Village

The main problem, WATER

• Those people without wells have to dig down 3 metres with their hands to find water

• The missionaries that live there with the Turkana have helped to build 103 stone dams and 75 sand dams that help to store the little rain that falls in this area.

• Priority needs to be given to resolving this problem, for if there is no life there can be no life expectancy.

• A further added problem is that the Turkana are nomadic livestock farmers and need water for their animals.