In Turkana’s Suguta Valley, a classroom can be a roofless shell battered by desert winds, a health centre can be a fragile shelter of sticks and branches and a simple search for water can mean walking into territory haunted by bandit attacks. For the families of Nadome, Kamuge, Ng’ilukia and Lomelo villages, life is not only shaped by insecurity but defined by what is missing because here, development remains a distant promise.