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Girl from Kenya Inspires 50,000 Meals on World Food Day
Inspired by the story of a young girl growing up in one of Africa’s biggest slums, WFP supporters rallied to provide more than 50,000 meals for World Food Day. Destined for hungry children in schools around the world, most of the meals arrived in...
ATE Team Rescue Another Baby Elephant from a Well
Vicki Fishlock Mon, 10/15/2012 Editor’s note – This email of thanks came in from Dr. Vicki Fishlock, a member of the Amboseli ...
“Water is Life”: East Africa Food Crisis One Year Later
One year since we announced our East Africa food crisis appeal, we bring you this incredible video capturing a Turkana community's delight as Oxfam builds them a borehole, bringing desperately needed fresh water to this village in Northern Kenya. Thank...
Kenya Poor Cling to Dump Site
Micah AlbertAs dawn neared and the light grew, the scene at a municipal dump outside Nairobi, Kenya, was hard to imagine. Otherworldly sunlight filtered through biogas steam and smoke from burning chemicals and plastic. The smell of rotting debris from...
Samuel Loewenberg on the Dadaab Refugee Camps in Kenya
Pulitzer Center grantee Samuel Loewenberg talks about the challenges that refugees escaping famine in Somalia face as they cross the border into Kenya.
HORN: La Niña returns
The climatic conditions linked to the drought in the Horn in 2011 have persisted, and some early warning officials say the aid community should brace themselves for a possible re-run of last year's food crisis. (..) However, in their forecast, the Worl...
Lessons Unlearned: Why Another Gigantic Famine Looms in Africa
Last year, around 13 million people in the Horn of Africa needed food aid. Now aid agencies warn failed harvests in the Sahel, the band of desert and scrub that runs south of the Sahara, mean 12 million more people require assistance. (..) The world ha...
A newborn Humpback joins the family
On Friday the GVI Kenya Marine team were lucky enough to spot humpback dolphins, one of the rarer species of cetacean found on the Kenyan coast. We were traveling slowly through the busy channel at 7am when Sophie spotted the first dolphin of the new year! This was exciting enough, but as we watched it [...]
Molly’s World: A Girl Films Her Life In A Nairobi Slum
What’s it like to grow up in the slums of Nairobi? In Spring 2011, WFP gave a small video camera to a 12-year-old girl named Molly and asked her to record scenes from her daily life. Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing more of her videos wh...
Kidz 4 Kidz
Kidz 4 Kidz (4:50 min, Kenya, by the Wafalme Crew) PLURAL+ Barcelona Forum of Cultures Award PLURAL+ UNESCO Igualada Association Award
