Here are some excerpts from the latest report by The Girl Child Network on their response to the drought affecting the Kajiado region in Southern Kenya .
The full report is available either by clicking here or on the link below
Aidlink and our local partner the Diocese of Lodwar have worked together in the drought affected region of Turkana, Northern Kenya, for over ten years. Our sustainable development work, focusing on climate adaptation, has allowed the Turkana people harvest their crops even though neighbouring regions are coping with one of the worst droughts in living memory.
Read the Full StoryThe extreme drought in East Africa, the worst in over half a century, has affected more than 10 million people across the region.
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Uganda
Improving the quality of tools and seeds can improve the livelihoods of the rural poor.
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Jane Tumusiime is a farmer from the district of Masaka in Southern Uganda. Aidlink and partner Caritas Maddo is implementing a community empowerment programme in Masaka, that...
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This desert, larger than the island of Ireland, is home to over 850,000 people. Turkana has suffered from cyclical droughts for the last number of years and unfortunately this winter the rains have failed once again.
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Capturing water in the desert: Turkana is a remote semi-arid region in Northwest Kenya larger than the island of Ireland which the travel writer Charles Miller described as a ‘horizonless frying pan of desolation…with temperatures...
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FGM is the enforced cutting of the female genitalia. This practice still takes place for cultural reasons in some regions of Africa, Asia and Europe. FGM has been illegal in Kenya since 2001.
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In Kajiado district, Kenya, Aidlink and the Girl Child Network have overseen huge successes in our project to improve the participation and performance of girls in school in the district. About 2/3 of all schoolgirls in Kajiado are...
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When it rained...class was cancelled... The 500 school children in Tano Adwumam, a small town outside Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, had grown accustomed to missing school. Primary school was held outside...
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St. Anthony's Primary and Junior Secondary School, Bantama, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana is a success story beyond that of mere construction. It is a result of co-operation between the school and parish commuity at Bantama, Aidlink and the Ghanain...
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