By Lilian T | Project coordinator
The high cost of food is a struggle for many families in Kenya. This was made worse by prolonged drought. The country had 3 months of intense heat and the expected rain delayed. Most of the students that we support come from Maasai families. The Maasai are pastoralist community. They get income by selling the livestock. During the drought time, the grass and wells dried up. A lot of livestock died, and it got so difficult to sell livestock in the markets. The families struggled to feed their kids.
One of our students reached out and said, “This drought has brought a lot of disaster ,the few goats we had all died. My family is struggling so much. We don’t have food and most time we sleep hungry.” This message broke our heart to pieces. We immediately started plans to take food to them.
Like George Bach said, Caring has the gift of making the ordinary feel special. We visited the community with a lot of food to share. The community was so grateful. We shared laughter, joy and a lot of happiness. When we went back to the city, we organized a charity walk and requested friends and supporters to bring food. We did another food distribution to the community and this time, we took more variety of food. We intend to make this a monthly service to community. We welcome welwishers to partner with us in this noble initiative. Let us spread love inform of food. Let us feed the kids so that they can see tomorrow.
“There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.” – Ed Asner
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