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Drought effects in Northern Kenya affect small scale herders, bringing more challenges to handle for El Molo community, such as food insecurity.

For ethnic groups living across Northern Kenya, the Lake Turkana provides an available and affordable source of protein. However, severe drought has led to the loss of livestock and crops in the last couple of years. As a result, challenges around food insecurity for the El Molo community continue increasing over time. In this participatory video, locals from Loiyangalani explain that is harder to get fish to eat as the drought crisis in Lake Turkana deepens.

It is not a novelty that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that marginalised communities whose survival depends on having a healthy and natural environment are the most at risk with the climate change crisis. El Molo community in Northern Kenya is already experiencing such effects.

This film is part of the “Northern Kenya Indigenous Video Collective: NENO, The Message” playlist. This playlist features 11 participatory videos produced between 2016 and 2019 in a joint project between InsightShare, The Christensen Fund, The Kivulini Trust and The Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The project aimed to connect indigenous communities across Northern Kenya and provide them with skills and resources to document their way of life through participatory video.

These participatory videos filmed by the trainees themselves show events and practices that are important for the community, like cultural festivals and endangered ceremonies. They also used participatory video to tackle pressing challenges and find collective solutions.

Northern Kenya has until recently remain isolated from the rest of the country, but now it is seeing development moving in at a rapid pace. This modernisation is a serious threat to the ancient ways of living and the traditional value systems that a living culture is rooted in. Most ethnic groups in Northern Kenya still have a traditional lifestyle, and oral tradition is the way of passing forward traditional knowledge.

InsightShare’s Living Cultures initiative supports Indigenous Peoples to protect their territories, languages and cultures using Participatory Video. Living Cultures is a growing movement across Asia, Africa and the Americas uniting indigenous communities across borders; to celebrate, foster and protect their cultures with the principle of self-determination at its very heart.

Find out more about InsightShare’s Living Cultures initiative here: https://insightshare.org/network/

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