Reports

By Linda Espenshade NAIROBI, Kenya – Mathare settlement isn’t an easy place to stay clean and healthy on an ordinary day, so preventing COVID-19 from infecting people in a crowded slum of Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi…

New survey reveals alarming malnutrition rates in Turkana, East Pokot, Mandera, Samburu, and West Pokot Nearly 73,000 children in Kenya are severely malnourished and at risk of dying from drought-related hunger unless urgent aid is made immediately available. The…

By Debbi DiGennaro March 15, 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya – Beginning Saturday, Feb. 25, and continuing for three days, about 2,000 youth, armed with machetes, attacked villages in inter-ethnic violence east of the city of Kisumu, Kenya, an area…

By Matthew Kistler Nov. 4, 2011 NAJILE, Kenya – A goat project among Kenya’s Maasai people is giving birth to more than baby goats. It’s powering to life a cooperative group ethic that is helping 2,000 Maasai families…

By Gladys Terichow Aug. 26, 2011 CALGARY, Alta. – A recent 480-kilometer (300-mile) bicycle tour in Kenya that included one of Canada’s two most-decorated Olympians has given peace clubs in Kenya a welcome boost. These peace clubs, supported by…

AKRON, Pa. - Diabetes is a serious health threat to anyone, but it can be particularly devastating in places such as Webuye, Kenya, where many can't afford equipment to test their blood sugar or medicine to control the condition. Mennonite…

AKRON, Pa. - Water is not as far away as it once was for the people of Enkusero-Sampu, a community in the Ngong Hills of Kenya. For years, obtaining water meant a 15-20 kilometer (about 9-13 mile) walk one way…

Kenyan farmers are concerned about climate change as they see crop production decrease because of rising temperatures, unreliable rainfall, soil erosion and drought. KOLA, Kenya - Changes in climate patterns here make it impossible for small-scale farmers to continue growing primary…

By Tim Shenk Feb. 6, 2009, AKRON, Pa. - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is sponsoring the distribution of 26 tons of corn flour to nearly 4,000 people in a drought-stricken area of southern Rift Valley Province, Kenya. Kenya is in the…

As violence in Kenya continues, MCC is committing more than $150,000 to help Kenyan partners meet immediate needs and begin longer term peace building work to rebuild shattered relationships and trust. AKRON, Pa., Feb. 8, 2008 - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)…