I "made it" to the North-Eastern part of Kenya last November to train teams on identifying impact stories for the projects they had engaged.

I say "made it" because at some point, especially between Isiolo and Marsabit, it felt like driving hundreds of miles outside Kenya, sometimes with desert crosswinds destabilising our car.

Besides, the brief I had from Faith to Action, with whom we had collaborated, seemed to have least prepared me for what lay ahead.

The many CBOs and CSOs at the meeting were not only faith-based, but also tackled some of the most critical issues in the two counties.