Samai is a community in Kajiado county located about 40 miles from Loitokitok town in Kenya. There are no roads leading to this community that lives entirely in the wilderness. Samai Primary school is located about 4 miles from a dirt road and about 20 miles from a paved road.

Africa Thriving first visited the community when we were invited to a church service that met under a tree. When we arrive, we found that the tree had been knocked over by an elephant the night before. Nevertheless we met with them and worshipped with them on that beautiful Sunday morning.

We kept in touch with the community leaders and established a feeding program with Samai Primary school that has close to 350 students. The children walk long distances across the wilderness heavily populated with elephants, lions, leopards and all kinds of other wild animals. This feeding program is saving countless lives that are lost that sadly, nobody ever hears about.

This partnership is just beginning. In just one year of bring food to the school, the test results from the school has risen to one of the highest in the entire county.