Blessed are the people of the Sagana Maganjo Water Irrigation Project! That is my thought as I walk through the fields here in Kasarani, Nairobi, where I live. It is heartrending to see so many dry fields. The beans sprout and are a beautiful green, only to turn brown and wither after six weeks for lack of rain. The corn gets two feet high and peters out.

      Not so for the people of our water irrigation project in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, 100 miles away. They continue to finish raising their crops with water from our system. We saw beautiful crops of every kind.

     Especially impressive was a field of 1,000 passion fruit vines. The owner, Joel Gakuru, told me he hauls 100 pounds of fruit each day to the market in Karatina, the nearest big town. He gets $65 per day, more than many earn each month. His is only one of the 196 farms receiving irrigation