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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.
Learn what the Cluster Model is achieving.


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


Five Things I Know About… Community Libraries
Cluster member DR. PATRICIA CHEPKWONY is a book-loving university lecturer and entrepreneurship consultant in Kericho, Kenya. In her...
Apr 18, 20192 min read


When Health and Development Workers Collaborate
Some time back, Arukah’s Co-founder Dr. TED LANKESTER issued a call for more collaboration to those of us involved in making our...
Apr 8, 20195 min read


Podcast: The Lions Barber Collective
Tom Chapman is from the Lions Barber Collective, an international network of barbers who provide a space - and listening ear - to men...
Mar 31, 20193 min read


An Arukah-Inspired Book Launch
Our members TED LANKESTER and NATHAN GRILLS celebrated the launch of their book "Setting Up Community Health and Development Programmes"...
Mar 21, 20191 min read


Q+A: Dennyson, Bihar Cluster
ABRAHAM DENNYSON launched and helps run Bihar Cluster in India. In this interview he speaks about the unique needs of this region, and...
Mar 13, 20193 min read


Podcast: The Lions Barber Collective
TOM CHAPMAN is founder of the Lions Barber Collective: an international network of barbers who are providing a space - and listening ear...
Mar 12, 20191 min read


Podcast: India, Gender & The Naive Enquirer
Last year, one study named India "the worst country in the world" in which to be a woman. HELEN MORGAN has spent the last four years in...
Feb 19, 20193 min read


Ted and Nathan's Book Launch
TED LANKESTER and NATHAN GRILLS have co-edited a new book which will be published by Oxford University Press on March 7th. It's called...
Feb 18, 20193 min read


Q+A: Sharon, Kericho Cluster
SHARON CHEPKEMOI is 18 years-old and female, but that hasn't stopped her becoming the head coach of an unbeaten football club for boys in...
Jan 28, 20192 min read


Podcast: The USA's Listen First Project
PEARCE GODWIN once worked at the heart of the United States political system. But as his country became more divided by politics, he left...
Jan 27, 20193 min read


Growing Crops, Growing Equality
Over the last two years, the Uttarakhand Cluster has been training young people with disabilities to nurture crops and animals in their...
Jan 18, 20192 min read


"It's Totally Changed My Thoughts"
India's NORTH EAST CLUSTER is less than a year old, but is already changing how many people think about disability. Find out how in their...
Jan 8, 20191 min read

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