Rather than focusing on the millions of Kenyans who are starving, today’s headlines were about graft, corruption, and which disgraced persons are running for national office. Two articles “Food Crisis” articles were found on page 14 of today’s Daily Nation, but neither are on their internet site. “The hungry turn to charcoal” shares: “With the choice of starvation or going to jail, villagers gladly choose the latter and take to the hills to fell trees for fuel, hoping to earn a few shillings,” so they can provide food for families who may not have eaten in days. Providing charcoal is not only illegal, it is also difficult – a bag (not the compact bags sold in American supermarkets, but wide sacks that are up to the waist of most adults) sells for only 100 KSH ($1.25) and .JPG)
the person may have walked 37.5 miles to find the wood to “bake” into charcoal. “Children now orphaned as adults flee famine area” shares that the school feeding programmes upon which many parents relied is no longer functioning as the government supply ended last year. So the children are relying upon wild fruit which only makes many kids sicker.
My frustration increased as I found one internet article from today’s Mombasa Daily Nation edition – “Starving people in Taita to wait even longer for relief food … More than 100,000
hunger stricken people in Taita district may have to wait longer before the delivery of a huge consignment of relief food.” Why? Lack of transport from Mombasa! Taita is not is in the western or northern corners of Kenya, it is just inland from the coastal city of Mombasa on a newly restored road!
Yes, this is discouraging, but I know there is hope. First, I know that some groups such as the Red Cross are providing relief to the starving. I also know that the representatives of the Baptist Convention of Kenya are partnering with SERV Ministries International, a Christian organization that receives emergency dehydrated food from USAID and ships it in containers to Kenya. A large truck load of this food was distributed last Saturday in the Lower Eastern Province (Ukambani, northwest of Taita) where the drought is also leaving thousands hungry. For a report on this feeding project which includes a modern-day miracle, read the latest prayer update of the IMB Legacy Team in Kenya at: http://bertandjackyates.blogspot.com/2009/02/february-11-2009.html
I’m also not discouraged because I know prayer works and that many of you are praying for the famine in Kenya and other parts of our world. To strengthen and encourage your prayers, all the recent Omba4Kenya famine prayer updates are now “grouped” at a new blog: Praying for Famine: Lifting Our Hearts and Our Hands to Heaven. In addition to the prayers and updates, there are pictures from the current and passed droughts that you can copy for use as you enlist others in praying for the drought. Thank you for the assurance I have that you are lifting your hearts and your hands in prayer! Bert Yates
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“Starving people in Taita to wait even longer for relief food” – http://www.nation.co.ke/Mombasa/-/519978/527872/-/mo8omh/-/index.html
Report on last Saturday’s feeding project in Ukambani: http://bertandjackyates.blogspot.com/
Praying for Famine: Lifting Our Hearts and Our Hands to Heaven – http://prayingforfamine.blogspot.com/
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the person may have walked 37.5 miles to find the wood to “bake” into charcoal. “Children now orphaned as adults flee famine area” shares that the school feeding programmes upon which many parents relied is no longer functioning as the government supply ended last year. So the children are relying upon wild fruit which only makes many kids sicker.My frustration increased as I found one internet article from today’s Mombasa Daily Nation edition – “Starving people in Taita to wait even longer for relief food … More than 100,000
hunger stricken people in Taita district may have to wait longer before the delivery of a huge consignment of relief food.” Why? Lack of transport from Mombasa! Taita is not is in the western or northern corners of Kenya, it is just inland from the coastal city of Mombasa on a newly restored road!Yes, this is discouraging, but I know there is hope. First, I know that some groups such as the Red Cross are providing relief to the starving. I also know that the representatives of the Baptist Convention of Kenya are partnering with SERV Ministries International, a Christian organization that receives emergency dehydrated food from USAID and ships it in containers to Kenya. A large truck load of this food was distributed last Saturday in the Lower Eastern Province (Ukambani, northwest of Taita) where the drought is also leaving thousands hungry. For a report on this feeding project which includes a modern-day miracle, read the latest prayer update of the IMB Legacy Team in Kenya at: http://bertandjackyates.blogspot.com/2009/02/february-11-2009.html
I’m also not discouraged because I know prayer works and that many of you are praying for the famine in Kenya and other parts of our world. To strengthen and encourage your prayers, all the recent Omba4Kenya famine prayer updates are now “grouped” at a new blog: Praying for Famine: Lifting Our Hearts and Our Hands to Heaven. In addition to the prayers and updates, there are pictures from the current and passed droughts that you can copy for use as you enlist others in praying for the drought. Thank you for the assurance I have that you are lifting your hearts and your hands in prayer! Bert Yates
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“Starving people in Taita to wait even longer for relief food” – http://www.nation.co.ke/Mombasa/-/519978/527872/-/mo8omh/-/index.html
Report on last Saturday’s feeding project in Ukambani: http://bertandjackyates.blogspot.com/
Praying for Famine: Lifting Our Hearts and Our Hands to Heaven – http://prayingforfamine.blogspot.com/
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