{"id":5126,"date":"2013-08-12T04:01:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2013-08-14T17:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T22:28:52","slug":"relief-for-kenya-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2013\/08\/relief-for-kenya-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief for Kenya Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several hundred families are looking for relief from flooding in Kenya. Funding from Covenant World Relief helped provide food (maize and beans), mosquito nets, and vehicles for transport of people and goods (two trucks and one car). Kitengela church members in Kenya, 80% of whom are Congolese refugees, donated clothes for relief. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5127\" alt=\"SAM_3209\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/07\/SAM_3209-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/07\/SAM_3209-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/07\/SAM_3209-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Only two years ago, many of these church members were receiving clothes <em>from<\/em> a clothing drive; now they are able to give back to those who are in greater need than themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Local leadership spoke to their communities about disaster preparedness for any future flooding encounters.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges have been swept away but the government expects to repair the damage. Crops are in ruins, submerged in water. The lack of harvest will surely impact the availability of food in the region.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An estimated 10,000 were left homeless after the floods; six people died, one a child, and many livestock were lost. The flooding also exposes many more to water borne diseases. The Evangelical Covenant Church of Kenya has been working to facilitate clean water access in many communities.<\/p>\n<p>Covenant World Relief is partnering with many projects in Kenya. To read about the Kenya water project, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/relief\/projects\/cd\/kenya-water\/\">here<\/a>. For more information about education for Congolese refugees in Kenya, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/relief\/projects\/cd\/kenya-education-for-refugees\/\">here<\/a>. To view the Kenya Women\u2019s Agricultural Development project, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/relief\/projects\/cd\/kenya-womens-agricultural-development\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=5126&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several hundred families are looking for relief from flooding in Kenya. Funding from Covenant World Relief helped provide food (maize and beans), mosquito nets, and vehicles for transport of people and goods (two trucks and one car). Kitengela church members in Kenya, 80% of whom are Congolese refugees, donated clothes for relief. Only two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[304,294],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-relief","tag-kenya","tag-refugee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Relief for Kenya Flooding - CWR Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2013\/08\/relief-for-kenya-flooding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Relief for Kenya Flooding - CWR Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Several hundred families are looking for relief from flooding in Kenya. 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