First Baby Born at New Ileret Maternity
The new maternity/neonatal unit at Ileret Health Centre welcomed its first new arrival after the successful completion of the new facility in [...]
Telesgaye Kitchen Structure Complete
Through support from the Ceres Foundation, TBI has finished constructing the Telesgaye School Kitchen and latrines. The $25,000 grant provided also included [...]
Update on Ileret Health Centre Constructions
Renovations of the Ileret Health Centre staff quarters and installations of fixtures for the new ward are moving on very smoothly. Furniture [...]
Loreng’elup Maternity Unit Update
Following the support from Safaricom Foundation, Loreng'elup maternity unit construction is coming along very well.
Leakey and Johanson share stage in NYC to discuss current state of paleoanthropology
Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson shared the stage at a historic event hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Consultations on Conservation of Sibiloi National Park
TBI is partnering with the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) and Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) to carry out community consultations on a new initiative [...]
Ileret Health Centre Renovations Begin
Using the donation from the Australian High Commission, renovations of the Ileret Health Centre are underway as the centre takes on a new face [...]
Community Consultations on Beekeeping project
The Kerio Delta where the Kerio River enters Lake Turkana is an area with potential for beekeeping. Wild honeybee colonies were observed to be [...]
Drs. Anyonge and Manthi teach Paleontology
The last course at the Turkana Basin Institute's Field School is Paleontology, the study of animal evolution through fossil remains, taught by Professors William Anyonge and Fredrick Kyalo Manthi.
First Sale for Nakechichok Women’s Group
After some fairly difficult months, with women being discouraged by their fellow women who viewed the shamba as a waste of time and preferred [...]
Excavating Aiyangiyang, Napaget
Nearing the end of their Archaeology course, TBI students returned to the Aiyangiyang depression where, led by Veronica Waweru and Helene Roche, they conducted [...]
Namorutunga
Sometime in the last few thousand years, a group of people who lived in the Turkana Basin erected a series of large stone pillars, [...]
Telesgaye Kitchen Update
The Telesgaye Primary School kitchen is still under construction with the walls and roofing now complete. Only the stoves, water tank, and chimneys remain [...]
Nachickechok Clan: Camel Branding
The TBI Field School is situated in a broad and arid steppe, inhabited by Turkana pastoralists thought to have arrived in the last 300-400 [...]
Oldowan Goat Roast II
Having butchered two goats using stone tools the students produced themselves, TBI students and staff then held a roast last Saturday night, to celebrate [...]
Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson to share the stage in NYC
Celebrating decades of groundbreaking exploration in East Africa, these renowned paleoanthropologists will make this joint appearance to discuss the overwhelming evidence for [...]
Oldowan Goat Roast I
Stone tools first appear in the Archaeological record over 2 million years ago, and many believe that their production was perhaps the most important [...]
Ancient and Modern Climates
Raymonde Bonnefille brought TBI Field School students to the local town of Lodwar, at the start of her course on paleoecology, to show them [...]
Stony Brook scientist revisits traditional view of human origins
Professor John Shea presents evidence that early human behavior was no less complex than that of living humans. Stone points dating to at least [...]
TBI Mobile Clinic provides HIV prevention education
TBI Mobile Clinic health workers carried out a HIV prevention education session for students from Ileret primary school. TBI Mobile Clinic health workers carried [...]