Northern Kenya

Thanksgiving 2019: Thank you for the lives you have changed!

Ever wonder what your donations accomplish in faraway places you have never heard of, may never visit, for people you may never meet?

We can answer that.

Our Partnership with the New Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Our partner, the University of California, Davis, will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural families out of poverty in developing countries. The Feed the Future...

Making History in Northern Kenya

By Amanda Teppo, BOMA Project Intern Each moment is a chance to make history. At the BOMA Project, participants in our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) are not only breaking the cycle of extreme poverty but driving social change as well. A new market, only 4...

Happy Graduation! Event celebrates the close-out of our pilot with GoK’s PROFIT program

“We started with nothing, and now we are businesswomen!” –PROFIT participant BOMA just successfully concluded its two-year pilot in Samburu County with the Government of Kenya’s Programme for Rural Outreach of Financial Innovations and Technologies (PROFIT). The...

Hotter, Drier, Hungrier: How Global Warming Punishes the World’s Poorest

Writing in the New York Times this week, Somini Sengupta highlights the escalating crisis in some of the world’s driest regions. Climate change is resulting in a “new normal” for people living in the remote arid regions of eastern Africa. Droughts have always been a...

BOMA Sponsors Lake Turkana Festival

On the coast of Lake Turkana, a three-day festival will celebrate the diverse cultures of Northern Kenya. The 7th annual Lake Turkana Cultural Festival runs from June 13-15 in Loiyangalani, Marsabit County, Kenya. At least 12 of the region’s ethnic...