February 8, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
While signs are good that a deal will be made soon to resolve the political crisis in Kenya, the country still desperately needs humanitarian assistance, writes Betty Kweyu, who is leading CARE International’s work in Kisumu, a city hit hard by violence after the country’s disputed presidential election.
Many Kenyans made homeless by the civil strife are living with family or friends, making it difficult to assess the number of internally displaced people, Ms. Kweyu writes on AlertNet, a Web site operated by the Reuters Foundation to promote humanitarian causes.
And others have lost their livelihoods and are barely able to support their basic needs. “People are now surviving on one meal a day, if they are lucky,” she writes.
What’s more, the ethnic tensions are making it difficult for the aid worker, who is African herself, to do her work.
Her name, Kweyu, “does not belong to the most populous tribe here, the Luos, and sometimes I even feel uncomfortable introducing myself.”
Read The Chronicle’s article on charitable efforts for Kenya.
What do you think? What can charities do to need ease the problems in Kenya?
