The village of Nyandoche Ibere in western Kenya, even though out of the way, still experiences the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Food supplies and nutrition, while already low before the pandemic, are now smaller.
With that as a backdrop, we at Emmah’s Garden decided to channel some of its fundraising dollars to the purchase of food supplies for the village. We wanted to help the people who need it the most in an immediate way.
The coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic have been deeply unsettling for so many people. This is obvious but why?
Here are some explanations.
Hi Everyone,
We are helping the people of Nyandoche Ibere in a very immediate and significant way by providing them with food support. This is a new effort by Emmah’s Garden.
Our initial and on-going effort to support the people of the village was to help provide clean and safe water. The village suffers from a lack of clean and healthy water. We are helping them with water filtration systems. The water filtration systems are gravity-fed so no energy (other than gravity) is needed to power the water filters.
Recently a friend of mine – who has already donated a Berkey filter to Emmah’s Garden’s efforts – heard about our actions to deliver food to the poorest people in the village of Nyandoche Ibere. She is strongly supportive. Her reasons were clear. “People who are hungry, mothers whose children are hungry,” she said, “do not care about long term improvements. They want help now.”
She wants to see her money going to these immediate needs.
We were very interested in Berkey because their filtering system is gravity based and no external power is needed to filter water.