There is tremendous food insecurity in Kenya with more than two million Kenyans considered to be experiencing either a food crisis or a food emergency. This dire state of affairs is prevalent in both rural and urban settings and continues to be exacerbated by certain factors including below-average crop harvests, weaker crop sales for families, lower wages for casual labor and food inflation of about 7%.

Over the last year, Father Waldrep has been able to help people affected by food insecurity in five different counties in Kenya and hopes to do so again this year. In three of these counties, the people that Father Waldrep helped are food stressed and eating minimally adequate diets but must make significant changes to their lifestyles to support non-food needs. In two of the counties helped by Father Waldrep, some people are in a food crisis and acute malnutrition affects 10-15% of the population.

While some families are simply not eating enough food, others are adopting non-sustainable coping mechanisms such as selling assets to eat. In the county where many people are classified as being in a food emergency, the risk of hunger-related death is rapidly increasing.

Father Waldrep wants to continue to help as many of these Kenyans as possible receive adequate food and nutrition and your gift can help to make this happen.