The following article writes about where most of the displaced people are camping now. The Odhiambo Mbai Centre hopes to visit some of these places in the hope of giving aid to these people.
Suffering at Nyanza camps for displaced (Click here to read original article.)
Published on February 11, 2008, 12:00 am
By Harold Ayodo
Life is tough for displaced people in makeshift camps in Nyanza Province.
Congestion, fear of disease outbreak and hunger are some of the hardships the more than 2,000 displaced people in Kisumu and Siaya face.
At St Stephen’s Cathedral in Kisumu, more than 1,000 people use two toilets.
Parents are living in fear after Mr Elijah Odero lost his daughter, four, at the camp.
"I narrowly escaped death with my family at Kabati estate in Naivasha only to lose Lillian Awuor near my ancestral home," says Odero.
Increasing cases of diarrhoea among children aged below five and respiratory infections are worrying health workers.
The story is the same at St Peter’s Anglican Church in Siaya and Ebenezer Child Care Centre in Nyando District.
The Rev Kenneth Wachianga of Anglican Church and Bishop Isaac Obure of Future Life Church have raised concerns over the health of displaced people camping in Siaya.
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