Meeting urgent needs of Kenyans uprooted by post-election violence
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--Charles Masese and his wife, whose family was displaced by post-election violence, have recently pitched their CWS tent by the ruins of their home. Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--People made homeless by post-election violence, waiting in Ekerengo Camp as the Kenyan military prepares to resettle them. Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--Joseph Moengo, made homeless by post-election violence, at Ekerengo Camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)--made homeless by post-election violence--pack up tents at Koru IDP Camp in Nyanza Province. Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--People made homeless by post-election violence, at an exit camp near the Rift Valley town of Burnt Forest. Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--A resettled family in Mt. Elgon District--people made homeless by post-election violence--now home but hungry. Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--Many returnees uprooted by post-election violence are surviving on immature vegetables from their gardens. Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--An empty camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Western Province near Kapenguria. Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 06/24/08 Caption: KENYA--Now caught in limbo, afraid to go home but their camp disbanded, these people made homeless by post-election violence in Western Province have nowhere to go. Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS |
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Date: 01/11/08 Caption: This entire section of houses and businesses in Nairobi’s slum area of Muthare was burned in the violence following the announcement of the disputed election results on December 30, 2007. Approximately 600 families who lived here are now homeless, but no lives were lost in the fire. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/11/08 Caption: Jacob Ogodo, 24, a resident of the Muthare slum area of Nairobi, owns a small business. His business was spared in the post-election violence that rocked his neighborhood, but there are fewer shoppers these days, and many other businesses like his are closed out of fear of further looting and destruction. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/11/08 Caption: A pile of charred bananas is all that remains from a house in a burned section of the Muthare slum area. Residents often stocked large bunches of bananas in their homes and waited for them to ripen before eating them. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/11/08 Caption: Church World Service Kenya, through its partner, the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church, distributes a truckload of cabbage and maize meal (corn flour) to residents of the Muthare slum area of Nairobi on January 11. Those receiving the food items were forced from their homes in the post-election violence and are staying on the grounds of a church inside the slum. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/11/08 Caption: Volunteers from the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church register people in the Muthare slum area to receive emergency food supplies from Church World Service. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Volunteers from the Church World Service partner the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church assisting with the distribution of emergency relief supplies to residents of the Muthare slum area who fled the post-election violence, verify names on a list of residents who will receive supplies. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Piles of personal household belongings from residents of the Muthare slum area cover the small patch of ground by the gate of Nairobi's Moi Air Force Base that has become a makeshift camp for people forced from their homes. For each family that fled the violence in their neighborhood, each pile is all the belongings they were able to take with them when they fled. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Piles of personal household belongings from residents of the Muthare slum area cover the small patch of ground by the gate of Nairobi's Moi Air Force Base that has become a makeshift camp for people forced from their homes. For each family that fled the violence in their neighborhood, each pile is all the belongings they were able to take with them when they fled. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: For some residents who fled the violence, all they were able to take was a piece of furniture such as a chest of drawers, or perhaps a live animal, such as a duck or baby goat. The owner is also keeping ten baby ducks inside this chest of drawers. Nairobi's Moi Air Force Base has become a makeshift camp for people forced from their homes. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Nairobi's Muthare slum area, one of the hotspots of violence in the post-election unrest that has plagued Kenya since December 30. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Benta Nyipolo, a young single mother of an 8-year-old girl, who is also HIV-positive, with the only personal belongings from her house in the Muthare slum area that she was able to carry with her when she fled the violence. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Priscilla Aseka is a mother with a 1 ½ month-old baby who fled the post-election violence in the area where she lived, the Muthare slum in Nairobi. She is staying with 346 other families on a small patch of land at the gate of the Moi Air Force base in a makeshift camp where there is little food and few supplies of essentials, such as blankets for her baby. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Emergency relief supplies of maize meal (corn flour) and salt were distributed to 346 families in a makeshift camp of people forced from their homes by post-election violence on January 4 by Church World Service through the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church. The following day, other basic food items (cooking oil, vegetables) and non-food items (blankets, clothes and feminine hygiene items) were distributed. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Women with babies were given priority to receive blankets as part of the emergency relief supplies distributed on January 4 and 5 by Church World Service through the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church to residents of the Muthare slum area in Nairobi who had fled the post-election violence. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Residents of the Muthare slum area in Nairobi who had fled the post-election violence received cooking oil as part of the food and non-food emergency relief items distributed by Church World Service through the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Residents of the Muthare slum area in Nairobi who had fled the post-election violence received cooking oil as part of the food and non-food emergency relief items distributed by Church World Service through the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Volunteers from CWS partner the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church distribute cooking oil, among the several emergency relief items given to residents of the Muthare slum area in Nairobi who had fled the post-election violence. Residents of the Muthare slum area in Nairobi who had fled the post-election violence received cooking oil as part of the food and non-food emergency relief items. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Residents of the Muthare slum area in Nairobi who had fled the post-election violence received carrots as part of the food and non-food emergency relief items distributed by Church World Service through the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: Residents of the Muthare slum area in Nairobi who had fled the post-election violence received carrots as part of the food and non-food emergency relief items distributed by Church World Service through the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/05/08 Caption: As soon as their mothers received the carrots, two young girls immediately began eating them. Food, especially fresh vegetables, has been in very short supply in the makeshift camp where 346 families have been staying for the past several days. Residents of the Muthare slum area in Nairobi who had fled the post-election violence received carrots as part of the food and non-food emergency relief items distributed by Church World Service through the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church. Credit: Stephen H. Padre for CWS |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: A truck off-loads food supplies at KELC youth center in Kiambiu slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit:George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: Kiambiu slums food distribution. Kiambiu slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit:George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: Residents of Kiambiu on exodus for peace environs. Kiambiu slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit:George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: Ann Aoko's family at a makeshift camp at the Chief's camp. Kiambiu slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit:George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: Relief supplies are delivered to CWS partner the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (KELC) Youth Center prior to distribution in Kiambiu slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit:George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: Distribution team pauses with a group photo. Kiambiu slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit:George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: Kiambiu slums food distribution. Kiambiu slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit:George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: Relief supplies assembled at KELC Youth Center awaiting distribution. Kiambiu slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Credit:George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: Alice Mwikali washes dishes at the Moi Air Force Base camp after serving her family with breakfast. Her family was displaced by the recent Kenyan post-election violence. Credit: George Arende/ACT |
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Date: 01/03/08 Caption: What was left from houses in Mathare 4 A, where many homes were razed to the ground December 31, 2007. With support from Church World Service, KELC delivered the first humaniterian assistance to the area since the eruption of violence there. Credit: George Arende/ACT |
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