Sometimes it s hard to understand how people can live so differently than we do. What s normal for us isn t always normal for people living in other parts of the world. Take for example, Ekomwa Ekukoit, a handsome boy who lives in a remote Turkana village in the desert of northern Kenya. At age 10, he s never been to school nor does he intend to go. For him, life is hard and food is scarce.
School is a luxury.
Ekomwa starts his day at sunrise, when he wakes up from sleeping on his mat on the dirt floor of his family s hut. He wakes his little brother, Ekuwom. If the brothers are lucky and their goats produced milk, they will share a gourd of goat milk before they start off to work. Ekomwa's family lives in a simple house, which looks like a igloo of sticks. His mother cooks over an open fire.