Imagine it’s the middle of the night and you wake up needing to use the bathroom. You have to venture outside to a dilapidated wood enclosure and squat over a ground pit. The smell of hundreds of others who’ve gone before you in nauseating. During Orongo’s flood season that pit may already be overflowing and completely unusable. Now imagine you’re older in years and your knees don’t bend the way they used to. Your back aches, you have arthritis in your hips and you may even u

At 83, Mama Florence has spent more than three decades doing what most would call impossible. From family land on the edge of Lake Victoria in Orongo Village, Kenya, she has built a lifeline for orphans, widows, and families with nowhere else to turn. Before this began, she was a primary school teacher. When she retired in 1989, her husband — the minister of their local church — gave her a piece of family land to start something new. That gift became the Orongo Village of Orp