Kenya Famine Intervention

Global Obesity Rates Expose Food Inequality

aidasideas — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:52:37 +0300

Global Obesity Rates Expose Food Inequality:

“food is available in the markets. It is just too expensive for poor people to buy. Production is vital, but the question of how food is distributed is more important. Increasing the size of the pie means nothing to people who aren’t allowed near the table.”

Children in camps give photographers a taste of their own...

aidasideas — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:16:58 +0300

Children in camps give photographers a taste of their own medicine

Was the food crisis in Kenya avoidable?

aidasideas — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:09:43 +0300

Was the food crisis in Kenya avoidable?:

Dadaab: A place of hope and fortune?

aidasideas — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:22 +0300

Dadaab: A place of hope and fortune?:

An article going inside Dadaab, written by Samanatha Spooner

The McCain ladies on famine in Kenya

aidasideas — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:13:25 +0300

The McCain ladies on famine in Kenya:

Meghan McCain interviewed Cindy, her mom, by phone from a hotel room in Kenya while she visited Dadaab with K’naan.

Keith Olbermann and Kristin Davis on the Famine

aidasideas — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:47:59 +0300

Keith Olbermann and Kristin Davis on the Famine

Africa famine fund-raising conference must produce 'actions not words'

aidasideas — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:36:10 +0300

Africa famine fund-raising conference must produce 'actions not words':

African leaders must give at least £30m to fight the Horn of Africa hunger crisis when they meet for a fund-raising conference on Thursday, activists have said.

A day at Dadaab: Five stages of desperation

aidasideas — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:12:52 +0300

A day at Dadaab: Five stages of desperation:

Story by Samantha Spooner, Photos by Philippa Ndisi-Hermann

"Creating an artificial distinction between those fleeing conflict and those fleeing drought, as the..."

aidasideas — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:35:50 +0300

“Creating an artificial distinction between those fleeing conflict and those fleeing drought, as the Kenyan government has tried to do, is disingenuous. Famine always has complex political as well as environmental causes.”

- Human Rights Watch Report, August 2011

Africa Have Your Say Debate: Are Africans doing enough to help...

aidasideas — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:30:34 +0300

Africa Have Your Say Debate: Are Africans doing enough to help themselves?

Innovative Residents of Kibera save many from hunger

aidasideas — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:07:38 +0300

Innovative Residents of Kibera save many from hunger:

“With the food they grow in between their shacks and even alongside gutters, they’re saving many thousands of people from being hungry every day,” Vertical farming in a Nairobi slum.

"Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself."

aidasideas — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:00:05 +0300

“Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself.”

- From “Stop Trying to Save Africa” by Uzodinma Iweala, the author of “Beasts of No Nation,” a novel about child soldiers.

Report says Kenyan police gang-raping Somali Refugees

aidasideas — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:43:00 +0300

Report says Kenyan police gang-raping Somali Refugees:

The Human Rights Watch report, “You don’t know who to blame: War Crimes in Somalia”, reports extensively on human rights violations by the Kenya Police on the Somali asylum seekers and refugees face as they try enter into the country.

Africans Act for Africa... holding governments accountable!

aidasideas — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:34:06 +0300

Africans Act for Africa... holding governments accountable!:

A report issued on Monday by a monitoring group, the Africans Act 4 Africa campaign urges a 100-fold increase in relief aid from members of the African Union.

African musicians look to launch new 'Band Aid' to fight East Africa famine

aidasideas — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:31:23 +0300

African musicians look to launch new 'Band Aid' to fight East Africa famine:

Kenyan acts Nameless, Juliani, and Sauti Sol are being joined by P-Square and Asa from Nigeria and Tanzanian poet Maya Wegeris on the line-up. Youssou N’Dour from Senegal has indicated to organizers that he is interested in being involved.

Kill the environment... it'll kill you back.

aidasideas — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:02:31 +0300

Kill the environment... it'll kill you back.:

…It all started with the colonial government, which cleared chunks of forest, first to feed steam engines, then to make way for Europeans settlers and later to deny the Mau Mau hideouts.

When independence came, the destruction did not abate. Black faces were now in-charge of the destruction…

Buy a Kenyans for Kenya T-shirt in Nairobi from...

aidasideas — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:29:33 +0300

Nairobi
Kenya Red Cross HQ – South C
Nakumatt Branches:
Nakumatt Mega – opposite Nyayo Stadium
Nakumatt Prestige - Ngong Road
Nakumatt Crossroads – Karen
Nakumatt Galleria – Langata

Nakumatt Westgate
Nakumatt Lifestyle – CBD

KCB Branches
Moi Avenue Branch (Ground Flr, Kencom Hse)
Village Market Branch

Safaricom Shops

Sarit Centre
Buruburu
Eastleigh
Shankardass House – Moi Avenue

"What happens after the media and all the hype dies down? What happens when the rains come? We have..."

aidasideas — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:52:40 +0300

“What happens after the media and all the hype dies down?
What happens when the rains come?
We have fed them today, what happens tomorrow?”

- Ole Mepukori

Kenyans for Kenya... and A Ghanaian for East Africa

aidasideas — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:47:06 +0300

Kenyans for Kenya... and A Ghanaian for East Africa:

An 11-year-old Ghanaian schoolboy has launched a campaign to raise $13 million during his holidays for the East African famine crisis.

"Giving should be done humbly, almost secretly. But corporate bosses milled up in a five-star hotel..."

aidasideas — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:44:00 +0300

“Giving should be done humbly, almost secretly. But corporate bosses milled up in a five-star hotel on live television outdid each other with huge dummy cheques presented by expensively dressed models who have never known hunger.”

- Emmanuel. B. Ngala