Kenya continues to need our support and prayers

Kenya

The political crisis in Kenya continues and so does the ongoing humanitarian emergency. PWRDF is still responding to the crisis, and Anglicans in Canada are encouraged to continue to designate gifts to PWRDF for its work within Kenya through ACT International. Just click here to go to CanadaHelps and after you select Donate Now you can designate your donation for “the crisis in Kenya“.

Human suffering is often visible and obvious in both natural disasters and civil conflict — hunger, injuries and people forced from their homes by destruction or violence. But often there are hidden and less visible needs of people who are among the most vulnerable in an emergency situation.

Such is the case in Kenya’s current situation. On one level, there are basic physical needs to be met for the more than 250,000 people who have been forced from their homes by the violence that has followed in the weeks since the disputed presidential election in late December, 2007. But on a deeper level, there are also serious physical and psychosocial needs that require medical care and other responses.

Following the first phase of providing immediate relief, ACT members in Kenya are expanding their response as part of a US $4.5 million ACT appeal to address food needs as well as some of the deeper needs of affected people, such as trauma counseling, peace-building and reconciliation, and assisting those who are HIV-positive. Action by Churches Together (ACT) International is a global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in emergencies worldwide.