Danielle's Kenya blog

Danielle Peck is a television professional who does voluntary work with ActionAid.

She has just been travelling through Kenya finding out about our work, and the impact it has in different areas of the country.

Moving Mountains
Yesterday mountains were moved. Mountains of food – 150 tonnes of maize, beans and vegetable oil was delivered to the AA warehouse in Mwinge, courtesy of the WFP and was immediately being despatched...
by:
Danielle Peck
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 - 12:19pm
Africa

Climate Change

East Africa drought

Food distribution

Food for Assets

hunger

Food rights

Kenya
Under the rain shadow
At the other end of the Tana River lies Mount Kenya, and that’s where I was today. But not on the lush, sodden windward side of the mountain which feeds the Tana. I was in the rain shadow of this...
by:
Danielle Peck
Wednesday, 13 July 2011 - 11:45am
Africa

community mobilisation

East Africa drought

irrigation

Kieni

Ngonde water project

Emergencies & Conflict

Food rights

Kenya

HungerFREE
So near, yet so far
Today I saw a shocking sight. After endless dry river beds, I was shown the Tana River. It runs from Mount Kenya in the centre of Kenya, right through the Mwinge district and out to the Indian Ocean...
by:
Danielle Peck
Tuesday, 5 July 2011 - 3:52pm
East Africa drought

Food rights
Selling everything for food
Power of the people comes in the form of hard labour here. Whether it’s a year’s work clearing the silt in a colonial-era rock water catchment or a year of digging to create an earth pan to collect...
by:
Danielle Peck
Thursday, 30 June 2011 - 5:05pm
Africa

drought

East Africa drought

food crisis

Food rights

Kenya
Seeing the impact for myself
The end of a long day. My supper has just squawked it’s way past my window in this little guesthouse in Kyuso, over an hour’s drive from Mwingi. We managed to corner the regional manager of the...
by:
Danielle Peck
Wednesday, 22 June 2011 - 10:12am
adaptation

Africa

drought

East Africa drought

hunger

Mwingi

water harvesting

World Food Programme

Emergencies & Conflict

Food rights

Kenya
First day in Mwingi, Kenya
This is my first working day in Kenya and I’ve come to Mwingi in East Kenya to talk to the local ActionAid International team about the plan for the next few days. My brief is clear – I am making a...
by:
Danielle Peck
Wednesday, 15 June 2011 - 11:25am
Africa

Climate Change

East Africa drought

hunger

maize

Mwingi

soil erosion

water

World Food Programme

Food rights

Kenya

Moving Mountains

Under the rain shadow

So near, yet so far

Selling everything for food

Seeing the impact for myself

First day in Mwingi, Kenya