Helping Displaced Families Rebuild their Homes and Regain Access to Food, Healthcare and Livelihoods
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Just One Voice has raised funds to assist displaced families in rural Kenya. Through TICH's program, described below, we are providing building supplies, food, medicine and seeds for crops. Cindi Brown and Jennifer Miller, directors of Just One Voice, traveld to Kisumu April 26 through May 5, 2008, to meet these families and distribute mosquitoe nets and other household items, all in our continuing efforts to assist those devastated by the post-election violence.
Special Message from Dr. Dan Keseje, Vice Chancellor, Great Lakes University of Kisumu (GLUK)
In Kenya, Kibaki's declaration as president in the general election of December 2007, was met by nationwide chaos and violence in which numerous people were killed, injured and displaced. Regrettably, women have been raped and children defiled, while property and livelihood for thousands has been destroyed. People who worked in Central and Rift Valley provinces have been relocated to their ancestral homes without any source of livelihood or shelter. With the planting season on, hunger is looming because the displaced have no capital to invest in food production.
The Tropical Institute of Community Health and Developmet (TICH) has tasked GLUK's Department of Disaster Response with devising a program to assist displaced persons, many who have been living in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps. Some returnees have no source of income and cannot get food on their own, relying on friends, family and well wishers instead. However, due to crop failure, harvests in this part of the country (Western Kenya on the shores of Lake Victoria) are hardly enough to take the families through to the next harvest.
Water borne diseases are common in Nyanza, so water treatment kits are needed. Children due for immunization or born during this post-election violence era need to be linked to the nearest health facilities to ensure they are fully immunized. Basic health care kits are needed by victims of gun shot, burns and other injuries requiring dressing. Distance from healthcare facilities and lack of finances prevent many people from getting adequate care. People who are displaced and on long-term therapies, such as TB treatment and ARV drugs, also require immediate assistance. To implement these relief efforts, GLUK seeks funding according to the cost breakdown in the table below.
Please donate to assist in re-locating and feeding the thousands of Kenyans who are rebuilding their lives after the post-election violence.
KEY ACTIVITIES IN ASSISTING DISPLACED FAMILIES
1. Supply preventive materials
• Procure and supply Chlorine and PUR for water treatment
• Procure and supply Soap
• Procure and supply Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs)
• Mobilize households for immunization of children
2. Support livelihoods and shelter by providing a package for revitalization of livelihoods
• Plough 2 acres of their land and provide seeds
• Home building materials and labour
3. Provide essential care
• Procure and provide essential drug kit per household for 3 months
The cost of supporting 1 household to re-establish livelihoods (KSh.)
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ITEM
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QUANTITY
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UNIT COST
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TOTAL COST (KSh)
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USD
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Shelter
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|
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Iron Sheets
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15
|
600
|
9000
|
130
|
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Poles for wall support
|
24
|
70
|
1680
|
24
|
|
Roofing poles
|
23
|
50
|
1150
|
17
|
|
Rail poles
|
7
|
60
|
420
|
6
|
|
Door
|
10
|
500
|
5000
|
72
|
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Roofing Nails
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5kgs
|
120
|
600
|
9
|
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Wire nails
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10kgs
|
100
|
1000
|
15
|
|
Sub-total
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|
|
18,860
|
273
|
|
Livelihoods rehabilitation
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|
|
|
|
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Ploughing
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2 acres
|
4,000
|
4000
|
57
|
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Seeds & Fertilizers
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2 acres
|
2,000
|
2000
|
29
|
|
Sub-total
|
|
|
6,000
|
86
|
|
Food supplementation
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|
|
|
|
|
One meal per day
|
90 days
|
40
|
3600
|
52
|
|
Sub-total
|
|
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3,600
|
52
|
|
Health care
|
|
|
|
|
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Medicines
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|
|
5000
|
72
|
|
Insecticide Treated Nets
|
20
|
300
|
6000
|
86
|
|
Sub-total
|
|
|
11,000
|
158
|
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Administrative costs
|
|
|
|
|
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Logistics & staff time
|
1
|
5,000
|
5000
|
72
|
|
Sub-total
|
|
|
5,000
|
72
|
|
Grand total
|
|
|
44,450
|
641
|
Please donate whatever you can spare and your monies will be used to house and feed the thousands of Kenyans who are rebuilding their lives.
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