"Somebody who is hungry cannot take education" | Africa Food Crisis | British Red Cross

Principle Moses is scared for the children’s future as the school’s attendance has seen a sharp decline due to the lack of food and water. Moses is the School Principle of Echoke Primary School in Turkana East Subcounty.
The school has 213 pupils but often only 30-40 attended due to the drought and lack of food. Parents keep their children off school to help them search for food and water.
Turkana, an arid/semi-arid county, is suffering one of the worst droughts in forty years. The majority of the people living in the county practise pastoralism (livestock herding of cattle, sheep, goats, and camels) as their main source of livelihood. Drought has particularly affected pastoral communities as it has caused pasture and water sources to dry up, resulting in livestock deaths and a lower output from remaining livestock.
Lack of access to water and food has led to high rates of malnutrition and school drop-outs as well as increased conflict between other pastoralist groups in Kenya’s North Rift region, as cattle raids have become a means of survival.
Together, as the world’s emergency responders, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has teams on the ground in 192 countries across the world. In a crisis, we can be there long before you will hear about it in the news, and we stay there long after the news cycle has moved on.
With support, we can continue to provide immediate aid and climate-smart livelihood support. Communities we serve are already reporting better access to food and easier ways to make a living, with which they can support themselves and their families.
Across the countries in Africa impacted, every person that is better equipped to face the future takes us one step closer to overcoming the crisis.
There are solutions. There is something everyone can do to help.

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