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he Turkana Vaccination and Educational Clinic, Konokono, is a
collaboration between MIT architecture students, Selgascano
Architects, MCSPA, and the people of Turkana. Predicated upon the
design and construction of a permanent vaccination and educational
centre for the nomadic people of Turkana, the building serves as a
broader platform for a higher level of socio-cultural exchange.
The Turkana tribe is a first society living in the vast north-western
region of Kenya, bordered by Uganda, South Sudan and Lake
Turkana, whose context is an arid landscape where few animals
live and only the toughest plants survive. Kokuselei, is a Turkana settlement
where the Missionary Community of Saint Paul the Apostle provides
services for the surrounding communities. This region was declared an
anthropological reserve during the British rule, which rendered the Turkana
community largely foreign to industrialization and other processes taking
place in the rest of Kenya.
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