Alison M. Jones: Photo Gallery: Nyala Dairy, Kenya

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All images © 2005 Alison M. Jones. All rights reserved.

BEFORE 2001, Kenya’s mountainous Nyala region struggled with only ten small stands, one hardware store and some small dairy farms to generate income. Then two thousand farmers formed a cooperative and asked TechnoServe to help them build a cooling plant so as to avoid severe underpayment by middlemen. Now 10,000 family members directly benefit; indirectly, including workers hired and other businesses connected with the dairy’s success, the number doubles to 20,000. These photos show the local farmers bringing their fresh milk into this cooling plant. — Alison M. Jones

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Dairy farmer Mr. Ndirungu, delivering milk in pick-up truck.
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Equator Group Collection. man pouring milk.
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Dairy lab worker with milk cans being loaded onto Brookside truck.
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Liz M’Wara, TechnoServe staff from Nairobi, pointing to electric wires in Nyala.
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Milk being filtered at plant.
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Mark Wichira, dairy plant manager at weighing scale receiving farmer’s milk in cans.
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Equator Group Collection, Mrs. Eunice Muthoni, dairy farmer, at equator collection center.
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Milk cans in pick-up truck at plannt, with dairy project sign behind.
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Justus Ndungu Wambugu, dairy farmer, Liz M’Wara, TechnoServe PR manager, and Peter Warungongo, councillor.
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Dairy farmer Mr. Ndirungu, in front of Brookside truck.
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Equator Group Collection, dairy farmer Mr. Mwangi Kamau with milk can on bicycle at equator collection center.
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Dairy farmer with book stating amount of milk he has delivered to Nyala.
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