Kenya Farming God's Way report

 

Boni people

 

The Boni people live along the NE Coast of Kenya & are hunter gatherers living in very primitive lifestyles of hunting wild game with bows & arrows & gathering fruit. They have been recently pushed into agrarian practices by the government as they are depleting the wildlife populations. They have no idea about farming & so it is a wonderful opportunity to train the poor with Farming God's Way so they can be successful & not have to do slash & burn agriculture any longer.

 

On arriving back from the Lamu Archipelago, we were given two mornings to teach FGW at a Boni village called Ruka. A mud building was given with a big tree outside, which meant some shade, as it was very very hot at Hindi. It belonged to a women’s group self help project, not that you think anything there is at any standard. I taught from my laptop, which definitely is inadequate to train more than 4 people, as it is too small. The bright sunlight even in the 3-walled room was effecting the presentations. Around 14 women and 6 men attended the two days, maybe a few more on the second day. Half of these have to sit outside looking through the “4^th wall”.
Because they are very eager for knowledge the have asked a lot of questions and are eager. There is a 5 meter deep well about 80 meters form where we did a demonstration plot. Before I started I got a promise from them that they will water this garden and will put up a fence around it. I will phone the missionaries and here how it is doing.  There are Boni villages stretched out all the way up to the village on the coast where Somalia and Kenya meet at the ocean. On the “high way “ you may found lions as they got last week and elephant, more regularly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kikuyu people at MPeketoni

 

We visited Pius' farm only find him in Mombassa. His farm looks great and I was blessed to see he is still farming FGW on his whole farm. I spoke to him on phone last week and have sent an email before, but response is slow as email is off in Mpeketoni and he has to go to Lamu for internet. He has also implemented FGW with a Catholic women’s group who has good success implementing it. He is really doing it full heartedly. I told Pius about you saying he might be invited to go to FGW conference and he is very excited. He will get his own passport and travel on his own cost to Nairobi and Back. Please keep me updated if it will materialize.

 

David Maturi did not have time to plant much last season as his wife was close to death with typhoid. He is however still going on using FGW. I spoke to him at the church.

 

There is another friend of mine in Mpeketoni, very capable man, he works for Out Of Africa Nuts. He implemented it on a section of his father's farm and overshadowed his father’s harvest. This year his father will be open to listen to him.

 

Malekote people group

 

Amos has been very faithful at implementing Farming God's Way on his small stand and has been advocating the training of the Malekote people to which he is a missionary. Here he stands proudly with his maize crop.

 

 

Many of the Kenyan missionaries working with the unreached people groups, have been trained in Farming God's Way & have been using the tool as a point of contact into these Islamic communities.

 

God bless

Alfonso Wessels

Missionary working amongst the unreached people groups in Kenya

 

Alfonso Wessels

Report February 2007