The first March rains have fallen gently. Tiny shrubs glisten, their leaves catching the light like jewels. Each droplet paints the plains of Ganze Sub-County in Kilifi with a faint stroke of hope.

The area had endured an unforgiving drought for three unrelenting years. Not a single drop of rain on this parched land. Rivers vanished leaving ghostly scars on the earth, brittle and barren.