Family Hope Charity in Kuresoi - Kenya's Great Rift Valley

Family Hope Charity is also working in Kuresoi located in Kenya’s spectacular southern Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley is a geographic wonder and really is a rift in the earth’s surface stretching from the Sea of Galilee in Israel to the center of the Republic of South Africa. Unfortunately in Kenya, the Rift Valley and Kuresoi in particular has also been the not so wonderous ‘ground zero’ of numerous incidences of unspeakable violence and resulting misery and desolation for hundreds of thousands of Kenyans every time there has been a national election since 1992. During the post-election violence of early 2008, 1300 Kenyans were killed and 600,000 dislocated and most of them were residents of the Rift Valey. These dislocated citizens of Kenya, labelled by international relief agencies with the euphemistic title ‘internally displaced persons (IDP’s),’ have still not recovered from the loss of life and livelihood that was the result of two months of fighting among three different tribal groups.

If you were visiting Kuresoi today and glanced over the rolling hills of Kuresoi, you wouldn’t see a single house because all of them were burned down during that time. It was a frightful episode of Kenya’s history. Neighbors and friends, who happened to be of different tribal communities, were encouraged by politicians to attack under just about any pretense, real or fanciful. And even though the residents of Kuresoi did not benefit one bit from the violence and blood shed of 2008 or any other previous election time, there are still lingering resentments, bitterness and talk of further trouble.

Read on to learn how Family Hope Charity is working to initiate and implement three projects that will attempt to rebuild and/or establish long lasting and constructive relationships among the three ethnic groups of Kuresoi, the Kikuyu, Kalenjin and Kisii.