Killing The Killer Drought In Kenya

Sometimes, nature could be unfair, rude, ruthless and heartless. I hate to think that someone is dying an undeserved death. Yes, undeserved because it is hunger and not sickness, it is thirst and not a crime.

According to the government, Over 1.3 million Kenyans are currently affected by the drought. With more than half of all 47 counties affected. Up to 400,000 of children, pregnant and lactating mothers seriously malnourished. That is a reason to worry. The effects are alarming including family separation as parents and or children travel up to 40 Kilometers in search of water and or food!

This calls for an immediate short-term solution as we pause for long term ones. It should be country's focus of point for all stakeholders. That does not qualify you to watch from afar with popcorns. It calls for your active participation as one of the valuable stakeholder.

Each family requires up to $10 a day to survive and we could be talking of over 260,000 families. That is up to $2.6 a day for about 4 months. (Holding all factors constant) If you have realized the figures are quite high, then you understand why the government can't do it alone and politics don’t have a place.

Just like 2011, it is time Safaricom, KCB, and Redcross in partnership with media houses did a Kenyans for Kenya National wide campaign. It’s time all the influential twitter bloggers did a donate hashtag on daily basis. It's time the rest of Kenyans sacrificed their 50 shillings towards this noble cause.

It's actually not the time to look up to the government, but to stand up and support the government, the time all the wealthy leaders and politicians pledged their share to show their care for a mwananchi rather than running all over the same counties asking for votes and promising them "rain" when they vote them in.

But where will they get water? This one is my only dilemma. Have our scientist proved that the wells can't break with water in all the 23 affected counties? I think we can have a 24 hours assignment to dig as many wells as possible. There are no fields that are dry enough not to afford a few oasis. We all know that in every dessert, there is an oasis of water. Because nature is fair enough. And until we do something now, we remain to be the most selfish and the most heartless beings any country would have.

Let's stand up now and donate via Kenya Red Cross Disaster Management program. Follow this link and donate now. Do not forget to #Share if you #Care