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District HIV/AID Coordinator explaining the current status on HIV / AID to the DLMC members

HIV/AIDS is one of the devastating catastrophe that has one of the most negative and long lasting impacts on almost all social economic aspects of life and sectors. It has perpetuated poverty, food insecurity, gender disparity and has overwhelmed traditional social support systems. By the end of 2006, UNAIDS estimated that there were about 39.5 million...

Thousands of individuals & groups benefit from Emergency Livelihood Protection and Food Supplement programme

Drought is a recurrent natural disaster in Kenya, it affects over 10 million mostly livestock dependent people in arid and semiarid parts of the country. So far the Kenyan drought response intervention has been subject to ad-hoc and before any positive interventions drought erodes the assets of the poor communities and undermines their livelihood strategies...