Kenya Relief Update: Food for 27,000
Some 3,970 households (27,790 persons) received emergency food assistance in April and May in Kenya.
The households are poor and directly affected by drought and consequently have no food in their homes, little or no assets in addition to that they are surviving on less than one meal per day. Most households consist of especially vulnerable persons such as widows, orphans, elderly, chronically ill and disabled.
Each household received monthly some 50 kg maize, 10 kg beans and 3 litres cooking oil.85% of the target beneficiaries benefit through food for work (making water pans, digging terraces, planting trees etc) while 15% is reserved those who are unable to work such as school going orphans, disabled, people living with HIV/AIDS as well as elderly and chronically ill.
Until now, the communities have undertaken food for work activities and have dug 85 water pans and made 198 terraces.
The relief project is scheduled to run until mid August and is done in cooperation with the Kenya Relief Consortium.
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