By Linda Espenshade NAIROBI, Kenya – Mathare settlement isn’t an easy place to stay clean and healthy on an ordinary day, so preventing COVID-19 from infecting people in a crowded slum of Kenya’s...
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Severe malnutrition rates shoot up across Kenya, leaving more than 70,000 children at risk of death
New survey reveals alarming malnutrition rates in Turkana, East Pokot, Mandera, Samburu, and West Pokot Nearly 73,000 children in Kenya are severely malnourished and at risk of dying from...
Violence erupts in Kenya; EMM and MCC respond with relief funds
By Debbi DiGennaro March 15, 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya – Beginning Saturday, Feb. 25, and continuing for three days, about 2,000 youth, armed with machetes, attacked villages in inter-ethnic violence east...
Kenya goat project demonstrates group power
By Matthew Kistler Nov. 4, 2011 NAJILE, Kenya – A goat project among Kenya’s Maasai people is giving birth to more than baby goats. It’s powering to life a cooperative group ethic that is helping...
Canadian Olympian fuels interest in MCC peace clubs in Kenya
By Gladys Terichow Aug. 26, 2011 CALGARY, Alta. – A recent 480-kilometer (300-mile) bicycle tour in Kenya that included one of Canada’s two most-decorated Olympians has given peace clubs in Kenya a...
Treating diabetes in Kenya
AKRON, Pa. - Diabetes is a serious health threat to anyone, but it can be particularly devastating in places such as Webuye, Kenya, where many can't afford equipment to test their blood sugar or...
Foods Resource Bank an avenue for MCC and others to address hunger
AKRON, Pa. - Water is not as far away as it once was for the people of Enkusero-Sampu, a community in the Ngong Hills of Kenya. For years, obtaining water meant a 15-20 kilometer (about 9-13 mile)...
Climate change affecting small-scale farmers in Kenya
Kenyan farmers are concerned about climate change as they see crop production decrease because of rising temperatures, unreliable rainfall, soil erosion and drought. KOLA, Kenya - Changes in climate...
MCC is sponsoring the distribution of corn flour to nearly 4,000 people in a drought-stricken area of Kenya
By Tim Shenk Feb. 6, 2009, AKRON, Pa. - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is sponsoring the distribution of 26 tons of corn flour to nearly 4,000 people in a drought-stricken area of southern Rift...
MCC increases response to violence in Kenya
As violence in Kenya continues, MCC is committing more than $150,000 to help Kenyan partners meet immediate needs and begin longer term peace building work to rebuild shattered relationships and...
MCC helps provide relief in Kenya as election crisis continues
MCC is supporting Kenyan churches in providing aid to thousands of people displaced by violence in Western Kenya. By Tim Shenk AKRON, Pa. - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is supporting Kenyan...
MCC supports peacemakers working to end Kenya's political violence
AKRON, Pa. - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is supporting a Kenyan organization that is working to bring a peaceful end to post-election violence in the country. Hundreds of Kenyans have died in...
Fighting the desert in Kenya
Tim Shenk A prolonged drought ended in many parts of Kenya with the arrival of heavy rains in April and May. Around the town of Kola in Kenya's Eastern province, the rains filled eight new "sand...
MCC helps Kenyans save livestock during drought
Tim Shenk A drought in much of eastern Africa is having a devastating effect on nomadic people who raise animals for a living. MCC is currently sending 12 truckloads of animal feed to members of one...
Kenya's Maasai start farms to fight hunger
Tim Shenk Joseph Nkuito's flourishing cornfield is a rare sight in Kenya's Rift Valley and a source of curiosity among his neighbors. Friends see his 8-foot-tall cornstalks and ask, "Why does your...
MCC provides food for displaced Kenyans
MCC funded a distribution of corn, beans, oil and flour to 3,000 families in Mai Mahiu, southern Kenya, in March. Competition for land and water sources has driven farmers and livestock herders into...