Brio Yiapin grew up in Austin -- 6 years ago she went back to Kenya to visit relatives and saw first hand the devestation a long running drought is having on the masai tribe.
"I went out the first evening with my cousins to get water and we went to a muddy hole in the ground and I was shocked," Yiapan said.
Brio and her friend Sarah Evans created the non profit group Well Aware -- it's misson -- to bring clean water to a people in need.
"This just really spoke to me and touched me, and you know I really didn't even know what was going on over there until brio explained it to me," Evans said. "And once I realized what was happening I felt like I couldn't not do something about it."
The lack of water means most of the masai's livestock and crops cannot survive -- and in turn, the people are dying.
"One in five children won't survive because of lack of water," said Sarah Nemec-Nelson, a Well Aware board member. "There's water borne illness but also dehydration."
Soon, Well Aware's dream to bring new life to this desert will be realized. On Wednesday, four members will travel to Kenya, to oversee a well digging project.
That one well will provide enough water for 30 thousand people and their livestock for years to come.
Well Aware helped fund the mission by selling water bottles, bottled water and jewelry handmade by the Masai.
The group is already working to raise funds for it's next well digging project in that region.
