The rivers are flowing and the grass is finally green in Kongelei, the pastoralist community in North Western Kenya. Here, I mostly meet women and children, as many men have left the villages in...
To Kecha Oudo, a mother of eight, and thousands of other residents of Saba Boru area the AAE food aid was timely. Having sold all her cattle to buy food after the drought, due to seasonal rain...
There are so many things we take for granted, but not for the students of Makima Primary School who treasure their lunch meal exceptionally. The school lies in the Eastern parts of Kenya in Makima in...
Sellina Narumbe is a pastoralist from Isiolo, northern Kenya. Reliant on her livestock for her survival, she has been hit hard by the ongoing drought sweeping parts of the country. Lack...
Fourteen year-old Martha Cherop is in standard four at Kongleai Primary School, West Pokot, in Kenya’s Rift Valley. The ongoing drought and food crisis affecting the country meant that she struggles...
I could feel the sweat trickling down my neck. It was 8 am in the morning and the scorching sun of Northern Kenya was high above me; the heat wave seeping energy from every living thing in...
Dama Katana Ngonbo is a determined woman. Determined to continue her life as a farmer and grow enough food to feed her family and send her children to school. In an area where the lack of rain...
Mohamed Bilala, ActionAid Kenya’s Warehouse Supervisor, is showing me around ActionAid’s food warehouse in Isiolo town. It is a familiar sight. In the first room is bag after bag of maize...
In any emergency, be it natural disaster or man-made, long- or short-term, people's lives are turned upside down. Knowing what's happening, where to go for assistance and who to call for help is...
