Nairobi, 31 May, 2022 / 9:05 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) have launched a drought appeal initiative that is aimed at raising funds to help families affected by drought in about 15 Catholic Dioceses of the East African country.
The initiative that was launched during the Catholic Bishops’ May 27 press conference on the state of the Nation held in Nairobi targets to raise a total of KES. 285 million (US$ 2.8 million).
“To prevent loss of lives and livelihoods, today, the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops is launching a drought appeal to raise a target of KES. 285,000,000 to provide for families affected by drought,” the Catholic Bishops in Kenya said.
The amount targeted in the initiative is to help the people of God affected through “cash transfers, water and sanitation, agricultural inputs and fodder and veterinary services for livestock for the next six months," KCCB members said.
They listed Marsabit, Isiolo, Lodwar, Garissa, Kitui, Kilifi, Mombasa, Machakos, Malindi, Maralal, Ngong, and parts of Nyahururu, Kitale, Nyeri, and Nakuru as areas that are most affected by the drought.