The Kipsongo slum (the place of the dogs) houses one of the most outcast people groups in Kenya; a group of men, women and children numbering 2,500.  The vast majority of the people here are of the Turkana Tribe.  They are nomadic warrior cattle herdsmen from northern Kenya.

Forty years ago the Turkana, seeking refuge from drought, famine and tribal clashes, came to Kitale for a better life.  Instead of a better life, the refugees only found rejection.  Having no other place to go, they settled in Kitale in what is now called the Kipsongo Slum.