Go north out of Nairobi, pass through the lush Mt. Kenya area, then descend down to the drought-gripped beginning of “the bush.” Gambella is one of the first villages you’ll find. It’s one of over 1,000 villages of the Borana tribe, a place stricken with high disease rates and crushing poverty. There are no paved roads, no electricity, no running water, and the “houses” look more like backpacking tents constructed from sticks and mud.

But all of that is rapidly changing for Gambella! Gambella has embraced Transformational Community Development (TCD) since February, 2008. With the help of compassionate partners, they’ve undertaken TCD projects like organizing to produce clean water, building a 7-room schoolhouse, learning agricultural techniques for drought areas, and creatively starting individual businesses that have doubled or quadrupled the income of many village families.

Read blog entries about Gambella.

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