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Food and cash aid in Kenya: photos

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 15 December 2009 | 0 comments

Concern is providing emergency food vouchers and cash aid to some of Kenya’s poorest people.

Kenya’s drought: media coverage

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 27 October 2009 | 4 comments
Herdsman raising goats instead of cattle in Kenya. Photo: Voice of America

Many parts of Kenya have now been without rain for three years.

Disaster looms in east Africa

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 5 October 2009 | 2 comments
No rainfall for three years has left the Kenyan landscape strewn. Daniel Howden

Daniel Howden from the Independent recently visited Marsabit in northern Kenya with Concern.

“Climate change is here”

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 7 September 2009 | 0 comments
Moyale in Kenya runs dry. Photograph: Sarah Elliott/EPA www.guardian.co.uk

Journalist John Vidal recently visited Moyale, Kenya, with Concern to see how the prolonged drought has been affecting the communities there.

Searching for water

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 23 July 2009 | 0 comments

I had always assumed that traveling through a desert would be hot, dusty and disorientating. Last week I found out that yes, all of the above is true.

Action reaps rewards

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 25 May 2009 | 1 comment

Action Mutenheri is a Zimbabwean farmer who was helped by Concern. Now he’s harvesting more crops than ever before.

To hospital with a goat

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 11 May 2009 | 0 comments

Travelling through Zimbabwe, it’s easy to see the devastating effects the last few years have had on people.

Great Ethiopian Run

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 16 April 2009 | 1 comment

Ethiopia’s prowess in long distance and marathon running is well known, bringing many an Olympic medal back to the country.

Waiting for rain

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 3 April 2009 | 0 comments

Kenya and other countries in the region have been waiting anxiously this week for the start of the “long” rains.

Family business

Posted by Louise Finan in Concern Blog | 25 March 2009 | 2 comments

The first thing that hits you when you step outside Bole Airport is the smell of Ethiopian food.

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