The Turkana Friends Mission in northwestern Kenya partners with Friends United Meeting to serve the nomadic Turkana people. The mission provides evangelism, pastoral care, education, water projects, and income generation. It operates 3 primary schools, nursery schools, sponsors girls' education, and installs hand pumps and biosand water filters. The mission aims to be self-sustaining and is entirely run by Turkana Friends, seeking to empower the community through entrepreneurship training and other initiatives. It hopes to build a conference center to generate further support for its ongoing work.

1. Turkana
Friends
Mission
in partnership
with Friends
United Meeting

2. Turkana
County is in
the north-
western
desert
region of
Kenya

3. Turkana is a
harsh desert
climate. The
Turkana
tribe are
nomadic
animal
herders

5. The peoplevalue their beautiful traditional culture,
whichis sowell adapted to their environment.

6. Yet life is veryhard in Turkana. Water is scarce.
Photo: Anthony Morland/IRIN

7. The Friends missionbegan in 1970 with a vocational
training school onthis compoundin Kalokol

8. Today the
mission does
evangelism,
pastoral
ministry,
education,
waterprojects
and income
generation

9. The mission is entirely run by Turkana Friends
themselves. John Moru is the Director.

10. Simon Ekaran is the Pastor in Charge

11. Peter Emana
Lotengan,
Turkana
Mission
project
manager, is on
long-term
“loan” to
Oxfam

12. The mission has a total ofabout 27 employees:
pastors,teachers, evangelists and support staff

13. John Lomuria is
the Vice
Chairman of
the mission
Board. Eden
Grace attends
Board meetings
whenever
possible.

14. Evangelism
and
Pastoral
Ministry

15. There are
now 16
Friends
Churches in
Turkana,
with more
being
started each
year

16. Some have buildings while others meet in the
open. Even a little bit of shade helps.

18. LokoyoFriends Church

20. Lochuga Friends Church

21. LodwarFriends Church

22. Nakiria
Friends
Church
meets
under this
tree.

23. Turkana Friends Mission has care ofthe Friends
Church inside the Kakuma Refugee Camp, founded
by CongoleseFriends and nowincluding many
different nationalities.

24. Some ofthe children of Kakuma RefugeeCamp
Friends Church

25. John and Grace Morupitch a tent when they go
on evangelisticmissions.

26. Theyhave felt a call to minister among the
Toposa people in South Sudan

27. Toposa

28. South Sudan has been devastated by decades of war.
John is studying psychology in orderto better
minister to thesepeople.

30. Malnutrition is a
serious problem
among the Toposa,
so John travels
with basic medical
supplies and
information.

31. Education

32. Only 3% ofthe
Turkana
population have a
secondary
education or
above.
15% have primary
level.
82% haveno
education at all

34. The mission
operates
three
primary
schools and
numerous
nursery
schools

35. Lochuga
Friends
School

37. Lodwar Friends Nursery School

38. The students line up to receive a healthy lunch

39. LokoyoFriends School

41. Nakiria Friends School

42. Girls and women are disadvantaged in Turkana
society.The Friends Missioninvests in women.

43. We
sponsor
girls to
attend
high
school and
thereby
avoid early
marriage

44. Water
Projects

45. Themission
takes its
priorities from
the local
community.
These Friends
in Katapokori
said that their
biggest need
was water.

46. Hand pumps are available for the whole
community to use.

47. There is no
surface
water in
Turkana.
This is how
people
traditionally
access
water.

48. Biosand
water filters
make the
murky
Turkana
groundwater
safe to drink

49. This wellin
Lokoyois one of
the Friends’
oldest, and is
about to be
rebuilt for the
third time.

50. Unfortu-
nately,
some wells
fail. This
one in
Kalokol
only brings
up salty
water.

51. Income
Generation

52. 95% ofthe
population lives
below the
Kenyan
government’s
official poverty
line

53. After a raresprinkling of rain, the grass grows
tall and brown. No crops can grow here.

54. Women make beautiful baskets but struggle to get
them to market

55. Right
Sharing of
World
Resourcesis
now
supporting
Turkana
Friends
women

56. Friendly Waterfor the World offers trainings in
entrepreneurship and business planning for
Young Adult Friends

57. “Ekone” means Friends. Ekone House was an income-
generating project for Turkana Mission,with retail
space in front and rental apartments behind.
Unfortunately, recent road constructionresulted in
its demolition.

58. There are now
plans to build a
conference
center in Lodwar
to generate
income for
mission work

59. This is St
Theresa’sin
Lodwar–our
conference
center could
feel like this:
cool, shady
and
welcoming

60. Turkana Mission’s prayer concerns:
- reliabletransportation
- peacein South Sudan in orderto developa more
sustained presence
- conferencecenterdevelopment
- consistent donor support for the operatingneedsof
the mission andfor the 28 girls who aresponsored

61. Thank you for your partnership through
Friends United Meeting!
www.fum.org