World Vision Supports Families Affected by Floods in Kenya's Nakuru County

NFIs for flood victims
E mërkurë, May 13, 2020

 

By Zipporah Karani, World Vision Communications Officer, Kenya

Thirty-nine-year-old Ngendo was having dinner and enjoying quality time with her husband John and five children, when the sound of fast moving water caught their attention.

“We opened the door and what we saw was shocking. It was raining heavily. And there was a lot of water moving with so much speed towards our house. It was scary!”

Together with their five children, Ngendo and her husband dashed out of the house and escaped to safety through a hole at a nearby fence.

Ngendo receives Non Food Items (NFI) kits from World Vision staff at a camp for people affected by floods at Ndabibi in Nakuru County, Kenya. ©World Vision Photo.
Ngendo (centre)receives Non Food Items (NFI) kits from World Vision staff at a camp for people affected by floods at Ndabibi in Nakuru County, Kenya. ©World Vision Photo.

 

Despite being saved from the floods, some of the family’s furniture, utensils and farm crops were destroyed by the excess water.

They are among the more than 400 people affected by floods caused by heavy rainfall at Ndabibi in Nakuru County, Kenya.

Families affected by floods at Ndabibi in Nakuru County, Kenya at a school that has been turned into a temporary camp
Families affected by floods at a camp in Ndabibi at Nakuru County, Kenya. ©World Vision Photo

 

Many of them have been accommodated at a nearby school that the government turned into a camp, as they wait to rebuild their lives.

World Vision is supporting the affected families in the camp with Non Food Items (NFI) kits comprising of kitchen utensils, blankets, mattresses, jerry cans and hygiene supplies (soap and water disinfection tablets).

World Vision is supporting communities affected by floods at Ndabibi in Nakuru County, Kenya.
World Vision is supporting communities affected by floods at Ndabibi in Nakuru County, Kenya. ©World Vision Photo.

 

The organisation will also distribute seeds to these families so as to enable them replenish crops destroyed by the rains.

 “I thank World Vision from the bottom of my heart. What they have provided is helping us to cope with this situation as we slowly go back to normal life,” says Ngendo.