As drought reshapes pastoral life, Maasai communities in Kenya find new resilience

Moses Kelaino (center) and Sr. Stella Cherobon (right) harvest vegetables with another farmer at a demonstration farm in Tuala, Kenya. The project teaches Maasai families climate-resilient farming as drought continues to reshape pastoral life across Kenya’s dry lands. (GSR photo/Doreen Ajiambo)

On Kenya's fragile plains south of Nairobi, where drought has killed millions of livestock and hunger is spreading across the dry lands, Maasai farmers and Catholic sisters are reshaping how communities survive.

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