Turkana Girl with Child

During one of our build projects, this sweet girl and a group of children came around to see what we were up to in their rural community. I suppose they had never seen a rather large group of men and women build a home before. It is traditionally a job for the women to build these strong and well built structures while the men sit and watch the progress of their future home. Through one of our translators, I learned she was only seven years old and cared for her baby brother while her mother is away to work. She was often left alone to care for her brother and other sibling for a couple days. She quickly took off with her group of children and went along their way before we could ask more questions or offered to help. I do think of her often and hope we'll come across each other again on my next mission trip to Turkana. - Support A Small Business & Do Good: 20% of each Kenyan watercolor print will support the Anaheim Days for Girls organization I am involved in. It is an organization that gives young girls and women a fighting opportunity to continue their education through receiving a handmade menstruation kit we ourselves help produce. I have seen first hand what a world of a difference it makes when girls continue to show up day after day to school when having your period is no longer a worry or taboo.