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Nasha Shinini’s husband left to look for work in Tanzania four years ago after their cows died in the village of O Lesorian in Magadi. Without any income of her own, she is struggling to raise their four children.

The effect of climate change on her village has claimed the lives of their entire herd of cattle, and without a ready supply of dried dung for the cooking fire, collecting wood has become a growing hardship in the continued drought that is devastating the land they live on.

Nasha struggles to feed her family and they often go to bed hungry.

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Gladys Sekento was forced to move to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, because of drought in her village. Frequent dry weather in some rural areas has severely affected food and water supplies for cattle, a main source of income for Masai families.

According to Practical Action, a local non-governmental organisation, many have moved to the capital, bringing their remaining cattle and setting up homes wherever they can.

Although Nairobi is greener than her village in southern Kenya, Sekento says life is expensive. The Masai people also face discrimination for trying to keep their traditional pastoral way of life alive in the city.

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