Mary Obiero and Jasmine Huggins | November 18, 2020 In many cultures across the globe, female genital mutilation -- or FGM -- has long been practiced as a rite of passage marking the transition of...
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Emergency Update: Flood Relief in Kenya
This is an update about our flood response. Click here to read the original appeal. CWS is responding to massive, deadly flooding in two parts of Kenya: West Pokot County and the Tana River delta. In...
Emergency appeal: Flood relief in Kenya
Appeal code: 642X Appeal amount: $500,000 SITUATION Kenya’s rainy season is from October through December. While the rains can improve pasture conditions in arid or semi-arid regions and recharge...
Promoting Modern Beekeeping in West Pokot County, Kenya
Kacheliba Constituency in West Pokot County, Kenya, can be a harsh place to live. Soil is unfertile, rainfall is erratic and resources are scarce. It’s a hotspot for the adverse impacts of climate...
The Double D: Displacement and Disability
Across the globe, climate change-related displacement has become a norm rather than an exception. Weather and climate hazards that are becoming increasingly common are displacing millions of people...
Left Behind: Addressing the Systemic Problems Keeping Children out of School
By Caleb Wafula You’ve probably seen the headlines about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a development agenda focused on ensuring that “no one is left behind.” Goal 4 of this...
Meeting the Needs of Communities Displaced by Flooding in Kenya
Michael Kendagor | August 19, 2018 In April 2018 River Tana, the biggest river in Kenya burst its banks following heavy rains. Amina and her children, along with hundreds of others in their community...
Talking the talk and walking the walk
Caleb Wafula The scientific consensus is very clear: Climate change is one of the most vexing challenges of the 21st century. Young people are highly vulnerable to the negative effects of climate...
Cash for Work Opens Up Opportunities for Youths in Kenya
According to Worldometers, Kenya’s total population is currently estimated to be 50.9 million with the median age being a young 19.2 years. The 2009 national census found that out of a population of...
Emergency Appeal: Flooding in Kenya
Situation Severe flooding in Kenya has displaced more than 311,000 people, killing 132 and injuring 23, according to the National Disaster Management Agency. More than 6,000 livestock have been...
Situation Report: Flooding in Kenya
Situation Severe flooding in nine counties across Kenya has displaced more than 244,000 men, women and children and has destroyed seasonal crops across an estimated 8,500 acres of land. Most...
Strengthening communities, ending gender-based violence in West Pokot, Kenya
Andrew Fuys | March 6, 2018 Over the past decade, Kenya has made great strides in strengthening its legal framework to prevent Gender-Based Violence against women and girls. Among pastoralist...
Drought response in Kenya: what comes next?
Caleb Wafula | November 29, 2017 Much of the Horn of Africa is reeling from the effects of what has probably been the worst drought in the recent years. In Kenya, for instance, the situation has been...
Cash for Work Repositioning Youths for Climate Resilience in Kenya
Introduction Climate change is an incontrovertible challenge of our time that threatens to derail or even roll back hard-earned development gains of the past decades and impede the progress towards...
Emergency Appeal: Drought and Hunger in Kenya’s Arid Regions
Situation Severe drought is affecting 2.7 million men, women and children in Kenya. Crop failures are projected at nearly 70 percent, and in February 2017 the Kenyan government declared a national...
CWS Kenya Flooding Situation Report - 14 January 2013
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SITUATION REPORT: KENYA FLOODING JAN. 14, 2013 SITUATION: Floods in the past two weeks following a long drought have left more...
Greenhouse Farming Carries Promise of Community Self Sufficiency
Just two months after their completion, the greenhouses on the campus of Musuani Secondary School are showing their promise. The crops in one greenhouse are growing strong, and project foreman Daniel...
Greenhouse Farming Comes to Mwingi
“One community’s future is another community’s present”: Green house farming hits Kiia village in Mwingi District, Kenya. By Sammy Mutua CWS-Africa Fifty-five community members, comprising of men,...
Kenya election preparedness: CWS DHA Appeal: 06-15-12
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM CWS DHA APPEAL: KENYA ELECTION PREPAREDNESS APPEAL #: 642-O APPEAL GOAL: $200,000 June 15, 2012 SITUATION: Kenya is preparing for...
Bringing nutrition awareness home in Kenya's famine-scarred Kinango
KINANGO DISTRICT, Kenya -- Food security specialists for humanitarian agency Church World Service, just returning from a nutrition program monitoring trip to Kenya’s drought- and famine-stricken...