East Africa Food Crisis - Kenya

4.3 million people in Kenya are affected by the crisis - mainly in the southern agricultural areas and the northern pastoralist regions, such as Turkana and Wajir where Oxfam is working.

(Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, December 16, 2011)

Kenya: Providing water, food, jobs and animal care

People in areas such as Turkana and Wajir rely on their livestock as their main source of income and nutrition.

Despite localized rainfall in some regions, there has been little relief for countless herders and farmers and their families. Though rain has recharged some water sources and pastureland, it has also brought fresh challenges. Flash floods have swept away homes, leaving 80,000 new homeless in Kenya. Floods have heightened the risk of spreading waterborne diseases and disrupted the delivery of aid to some regions.

  • In Kenya, Oxfam has programs reaching over 700,000 people.
     
  • Oxfam is providing clean water to over 50,000 people in Dadaab, Kenya - the site of several refugee camps.
     
  • Oxfam’s “de-stocking” program buys up some of the weakest goats and, sheep – ensuring that their owners get an income and some vital cash before their assets die – and we then slaughter the animals to provide meat to the community.
     
  • About 900,000 vulnerable animals – belonging to 18,000 families – are also benefiting from Oxfam’s veterinarian and de-worming programs.

     

Oxfam's Janna Hamilton talks about her second day
at Dadaab refugee camp, 1 August 2011.

 

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