Community
Why civic life is not the same thing as tribe.
“The village that hears every voice keeps every child.”
Sabaot proverb
We are a tribal people, and we are also a civic people. The Foundation refuses to collapse the two. Tribe is a house of memory. Community is a house of decisions. Both are needed. Neither is enough alone.
What community means here
Community is what we practise on a Tuesday morning, in a savings group, in a school committee, in a village dispute panel, in a Christian congregation. It is the ordinary civic life of ordinary Kalenjin households, and it is the seedbed of a nation.
Why the Foundation invests here
Because prosperity built on a household that does not know its neighbour is fragile. And because a nation whose only civic life is on election day is a nation asking for trouble. Community is where the covenant is kept, or lost, every week.