By Emily Smith | Field Worker
It seems that food prices in Kenya are continuing to rise relentlessly, with the rains starting late Kenya's cows were struggling to produce enough milk and so the prices have risen and many shops have rationed how many packets of milk each customer could buy. Now butter and other dairy products is very scarce.
When prices of such basic products as milk rise, its hits families in Kibera hard. For many a nice sweet milky cup of tea in the morning is all they will take for breakfast, perhaps all they will consume until the evening meal. The rising prices also affect our project as we provide milky tea for around 100 kids in Kibera every morning.
Yet our work is continuing, we have taken a short break for the school holidays but from next week we will open our doors once again and kids aged between 4 and 16 years will recieve a hot and healthy breakfast and lunch each day. In the case of young Nick who is just 5 years old, the meals he gets at Turning Point each is all the food he eats each day. His single mother struggles to provide him with an evening meal and so he comes tired and hungry to the project each morning and can't wait for breakfast time at 10am.
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