Hunger kills 9 in Samburu county #kenya

Pamela Marumbe A mother of four children and a widow in
Turkana Central Ngare mare location and her young child
also experienced starvaion due to the on going drought in
the northern part of Kenya Photo/Enos Teche
Pangs of hunger in Samburu county has left scores dead
and several others in critical condition following the
ongoing drought in the area.
The affected, mostly children and old people, died after their
family left them unattended in search of water and pasture
for their livestocks.
"We are facing water shortage as well as food for our
families and livestocks making us to survive on acacia and
some bitter wild fruits and leaves we come across," said
Joseph Jemail Mapanya, a father of eight children, in
Ndonyowasin Samburu East constituency.
Areas adversely affected by drought in Samburu East
constituency according to reports by the Kenya Red Cross
Society are Kawap, Ngaroni, Nachola, Swari, Seri Olepi and
Marti villages.
This comes days after the deputy president, William Ruto,
visited section of the affected areas in Samburu and
donated 10 million shillings to help the affected
communities.
Kenya Red Cross Society has confirmed that at least 25,100
persons from Samburu East, 15,000 In Samburu Central and
21,650 in Samburu North have been affected by the ongoing
drought and famine in Samburu county as from March to
July 2014.
Red Cross proposed early action interventions by
introduction of school feeding Programmes to keep children
in schools, especially the Early Childhood Development
when they re-open and rehabilitation of water points in
strategic places as well as providing essential health and
nutrition services.
"We intend to work with the central and county
governments as well as the humanitarian agencies for
interventions in the target counties to help reduce the
impact of the drought in the ground," said Abbas Gullet the
KRCS Secretary General in his twitter handle on Saturday.
Abbas also called upon Kenyans through the Kenya for
Kenya initiative(K4K) to support interventions for 2014
looming drought by using MPesa Paybill No. 10,000.Or KCB
Moi Avenue Branch Account No.1129605760.
The government of Kenya through The ministry of devolution
has donated 1 billion shillings to help create sustainable
and long term projects such as irrigation in pastoralist
communities for the agro-pastoralists farming in order to
bridge the gap of food security in the country.