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Cash Transfers Support Families Affected by Floods in Tana River County

Heavy, grey rain clouds gather over Centre 2 village in Garsen Town, Tana River County. Eva Ghamaharo, a mother of three, is walking home with her 3-year-old twin daughters Grace and Jane after purchasing groceries from a nearby kiosk. Her daughters excitedly sip on their milk packets. They enter their home, where...

04 January 2024

Rising above the floodwaters in Tana River

As the holiday season and new year festivities approach in December, a stark reality of destruction and displacement persists within the flood-affected communities living in Bandi village in Tana River County. This is the situation facing Jilo Gorogosi, a 16-year-old boy from the village that was hit by devastatin...

06 January 2023

Access to water brings hope for Rigdam village

Since October, it has only rained twice in Rigdam. Community members living in the village in Garissa County, Kenya, are now starting to migrate in search of water and pasture for their livestock. Now with only eight households, down from 150, Rigdam is one of thousands of Kenyan villages affected by the current d...

06 January 2023

Stopping the spread of measles during Kenya's worst drought in 40 years

On a sunny afternoon in Kangataruk Village in northern Kenya, a long line of mothers wait with young children, here to receive the measles vaccine. The mothers are calm but tired as they have been waiting for hours. Many are decorated with colourful bead chains of red, yellow, and green, wrapped around their necks...

08 February 2022

UNICEF Kenya and Airtel Kenya launch new partnership to promote children’s rights to education and protection

Nairobi, 8 February 2021 – UNICEF Kenya and Airtel Kenya have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote children’s rights to education and a safe and secure childhood, as well as providing vital information to parents during humanitarian emergencies. The joint work will focus on protecting the mos...

18 February 2021

UNICEF Kenya Country Kit 2020-22

The UNICEF Kenya Country Kit 2020-22 takes a look at progress on children's rights in Kenya, and UNICEF's response. This covers the situation of children and UNICEF's work in the following areas: child protection; education; emergencies; health; HIV and AIDS; nutrition; social policy and social protection; and wat...

19 November 2020

UNICEF Kenya and Safaricom announce landmark partnership for children

Nairobi, 19 November 2020 - UNICEF Kenya and Safaricom today announced a new partnership to help Kenyan children in a range of areas including education, child protection and emergencies. The new partners have pledged to work together to ensure children – especially the poorest and most marginalized – can access t...

23 December 2019

Kisumu floods: Wycliffe’s children stay in a camp

Wycliffe Ochieng, 48, left home with his wife and eight children when heavy rains and floods hit Kisumu county three weeks ago. The family moved to an evacuation camp at Nyamasau Primary School. ‘’When it started raining I was not so worried, but the rains didn’t stop,” Wycliffe says. “It kept raining for days and...

23 December 2019

Kisumu floods: Esther waits to give birth

When the recent heavy rains and floods hit Kisumu county, 23-year-old Esther Alouch was newly married and expecting her first child in six weeks’ time. Her home was flooded and most of the family’s crops were destroyed. Esther moved her to the evacuation centre at nearby Nyamasau Primary School, while her husband ...

23 December 2019

Turkana floods: Charles loses the family home

Married with 12 children, Charles Lokaruka was thriving in Loturerei village not knowing he had built his estate on land fraught with danger. Situated near a dry riverbed in a semi-arid climate, it made perfect sense to be near the most likely water source. It’s practically impossible to find water anywhere farthe...

18 December 2019

Turkana floods: Mama Kenya gets a helping hand

Ekai Lomoru, affectionately known as ‘Mama Kenya’ to her fellow villagers, stands on a pile of sand that a few weeks ago was a fully stocked shop before floods struck in Lotererei Village, Lodwar. She lost both her shop and home, just one of 70 houses that were partially or completely destroyed in the village duri...

16 December 2019

Turkana floods: Peter sleeps out of doors

Peter Echwaa, 15, has been sleeping outside since the river near Loturerei village broke its banks during recent heavy rains and destroyed his home. The floods were worse than anyone in the area can remember. Since the family’s main house was destroyed, Peter and his father have shared a bed outside the small hut ...