The brain's ability to create and rearrange neuronal connections, particularly in response to learning, is known as neuroplasticity. In today’s fast-paced environment, the importance of childhood cannot be overstated.

Children need to play, a safe learning environment and a safe home. When in place of safety and stability there exists food scarcity, separation from parents or a volatile environment, then that process of growth is interrupted and children are then left to focus on things that they are not equipped to focus on.

Through its Improving Lives Initiative, Davis & Shirtliff collaborates with nonprofits to enhance the living circumstances of children in need. In partnership with Twins International, the Initiative has donated 5 solar water heaters to Alice Village, an orphanage which is home to 100 children between the ages of 3 - 18. The solar hot water systems have curbed the persistent health conditions of the cold, benefiting the children under their care, and the future children that may be referred to them through the Government's Children Office.

Present during the colorful handover ceremony were Davis & Shirtliff’s Utawala Branch Manager, Winfred Rono, and Sales Engineer, Millicent Olang’ , together with staff from both the Alice Village and Twins International.