That's exactly the situation today in western Kenya, where up to 850,000 people are struggling to exist in the bone-dry region.
The group is an interdenominational mission effort founded by a group of businessmen from throughout the US in 1978. Harvesters International has been working since 1988 with the Pokot people who inhabit the arid, drought-ravaged area of Kenya near the border with Uganda in Africa's Upper Rift Valley.