China helping quench kids' thirst in Kenya

Donation to isolated school credited with firing new enthusiasm for learning

NAIROBI - Titus Nzasi has always believed that investing in roads, water, education and health could unlock prosperity in his isolated hometown on the far reaches of semiarid Kitui County in lower eastern Kenya.

Unfortunately, Nzasi's dream of better days ahead almost became a mirage due to droughts that have worsened poverty, hunger and poor school enrollment in his ancestral rural community.