Kenya National Flood Response
Kenya is currently experiencing an exceptionally severe rainy season, which has come in the wake of a harsh El Niño. Devastating floods and landslides have affected 38 of the country’s 47 counties, including Busia County in Western Kenya where Funyula Area Programme is located. The Kenya Meteorological Department has warned that the rains are likely to continue up to mid-July in the Western region.
Over 206,000 people have been displaced and more than 200 people have been killed by flood events across Kenya, including highly vulnerable children and families based in urban slums in Nairobi and refugee camps in Dadaab. The floods have adversely affected food security and livelihoods, with the destruction of livestock and croplands. Children have been the most affected and families are now relying on humanitarian support to meet their basic emergency needs, such as food, water, warm clothing, and healthcare. The spread of waterborne diseases has increased, with cholera cases on the rise due to the contamination of wells and rivers. In a clear sign of how disasters fuelled by climate change can disrupt education and cause great uncertainty in children’s futures, the reopening of schools for the second term has been postponed indefinitely.
Save lives now. You can help children and families in distress meet their immediate needs by providing:
- Emergency food aid
- Water treatment kits with AquaTabs to prevent cholera, typhoid, dysentery, and other waterborne diseases
- Dignity kits to help displaced children maintain hygiene
- Essential non-food items, including mosquito nets to mitigate the risk of malaria, bedding, and cookware
- Multi-purpose cash transfers to alleviate the impact of inflation on food
- Psychological first aid
