The story of a Pokot community estimated at 60,000 people with no school, no hospital, no permanent water, and no church—and how Holy Goats is part of a long-term answer.
When Nathan Hammond first flew into the remote Pokot valley in northern Kenya’s Baringo County, he was not prepared for what he saw. The community—an estimated 60,000 people—had no school, no hospital, no permanent water source, and no church building. Pastors were serving in temporary shelters, without roofs, without benches, without anything but faith and perseverance.
“I’ve been in difficult places before,” Nathan said. “But nothing quite prepared me for this. And yet the pastors there—their joy, their commitment, their love for their communities—it was unlike anything I had encountered.”
The Problem With Short-Term Giving
The community had received donations before. Gifts of food, of clothing, of supplies. And while each gift met an immediate need, none of them had created lasting change. The pastors remained in extreme poverty. The community remained without infrastructure. And every year, the cycle continued.
What the valley needed was not another donation. It needed a business.
