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Learn what the Cluster Model is achieving.
Learn what the Cluster Model is achieving.
Learn what the Cluster Model is achieving.


5 Things I Know About... Disability
FELIX OMONDI is a Program Officer at the Lake Victoria Disability Centre (LVDC) in the Mara region of Tanzania. He is also a member of...
Sep 25, 20192 min read


Join Our New 'Cluster Coaching Calls'
Even though we're scattered all around the world, members of our network will soon be able to regularly connect for 'Cluster Coaching...
Sep 17, 20192 min read


5 Things I Know About... Spiritual Activism
In this podcast episode, we talk with one of the world's leading environmental campaigners, ALASTAIR MCINTOSH. Below are five highlights from our conversation about the challenges of climate change, the importance of building community, and how to become what he calls a 'spiritual activist'. Why his most famous community campaign succeeded... "In 1991 I became part of a small group trying to bring a small [Scottish] island - the Isle of Eigg - into community ownership. As we
Sep 6, 20192 min read


Arukah Network Radio Show Launch
In our How To Build Community podcast, we share stories of community-building from around the world. Our Communications Co-ordinator JAKE...
Sep 2, 20192 min read


Leadership Training in Bihar
In this video, find out why members of India's Bihar Cluster gathered together recently. And learn more about the Cluster here.
Aug 9, 20191 min read


A Cluster Response to a Changing Climate
A new Cluster project in Chisekesi, Zambia is responding to the impact of climate change and provide a reliable source of food for the...
Aug 7, 20191 min read


Five Things To Learn About... Storytelling
Our latest podcast Laura the Storyteller is an interview with award-winning storyteller LAURA SIMMS. Below are some highlights from the...
Jul 31, 20192 min read


Launching Rwanda Cluster
When HORMIS NDAGIJIMANA from Rwanda first heard about Arukah Network, he wanted to learn more. After travelling to join a recent Cluster...
Jul 25, 20192 min read


Things I Know About... Human Rights
OSTACK MLIGO is a human rights lawyer specialising in community legal aid in the town of Musoma, in the Mara region of Tanzania. He is...
Jul 22, 20192 min read


Mathews 'The Innovator' Monde
In 2016, Zambia’s Ministry of Health named MATHEWS MONDE one of its most innovative health workers. In this interview, he tells us why he...
Jul 17, 20195 min read


Things We Know About… Coaching A Local Football Team
This episode follows the successes of 18 year old SHARON CHEPKEMOI and her boys football team Galarc FC. Below are some highlights from...
Jul 3, 20192 min read


My Community: Kericho
DAN RONOH is one of our trustees and also runs a youth organisation in Kericho, Kenya. This is his introduction to the town in which he...
Jun 19, 20192 min read


Five Things I Know About… Running a Hair Salon
For the past 25 years Cluster member CHRISTINE ACHIENG OCHIA has run a hair salon in Kericho. But this is not an ordinary hair salon –...
Jun 18, 20192 min read


Things To Know About Growing Your Cluster
ROBINS OCHIENG ODIYO is Arukah's Cluster Development Lead for Africa. Here he shares some of his experiences of what's important when...
Jun 13, 20192 min read


Podcast: Kenya's Unbeatable Football Coach
Galarc FC is a boys football club with a difference. Even though they have won 50 games in a row in their local Kenyan league, their...
May 31, 20191 min read


Five Things I Know About... Running a Widows' Group
Cluster member ROSE PAKOMI MALIMA runs the Musoma Widows' Association in Tanzania's Mara region. Here she shares why her work is needed...
May 17, 20191 min read


The Age of 'Doing Charity' to Others "is Coming to an End"
Before SIMON GALLOW joined UN Women, he worked with a global consultancy firm called EY, and was part of a 'BeyondMe' team that partnered...
May 13, 20192 min read


My Community: Chisekesi
NIMOY GERRY is a mechanic and Cluster member from Chisekesi in southern Zambia. This is his brief background to the town and the role...
May 3, 20192 min read


Podcast: Asset-Based Community Development
For more than twenty years, in over thirty countries, and with hundreds of communities, CORMAC RUSSELL has been a leading figure in the...
Apr 27, 20192 min read


Welcoming New Faces To Arukah Network
Kenya’s Kericho Cluster held a small gathering for network members from Zambia and the UK last month. Stories and updates were shared,...
Apr 20, 20192 min read

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