Responding to Kenya's Hunger Crisis - March 2018

A total of 240,345 people in Kenya were reached with World Vision's response to drought and food insecurity in March 2018. 

Still, the response is ongoing.  

 World Vision is concerned that: 

• 2.55 million people require food assistance: From March to August 2018, 2.35 million people are expected to face  crisis and emergency classifications of food insecurity caused by drought, and 200,000 people are expected to be in stress drought classification. More households in Isiolo, Garissa, Tana River, Mandera and Kajiado have moved into the crisis phase. Parts of Turkana, Marsabit and Wajir are similarly in the crisis phase despite improvements in food security. The situation is likely to remain critical until April 2018.
  
  
• More than 430,000 women and children require nutrition assistance: The overall nutrition situation in the country has improved according to analysis conducted in February 2018. An estimate of 399,820 children are in need of treatment for acute malnutrition. This is in addition to 37,160 pregnant and lactating women who also require treatment for malnutrition.
  
  
• Families face difficulties in accessing water: The current main water sources are water pans, boreholes, rivers springs, shallow wells and piped water. The open water sources were recharged by 60 to 90 per cent of their capacities and are currently holding up to 30 to 60 per cent of their normal capacities. However, in Kajiado, most water pans did not recharge due to poor performance of the short rains and high siltation.
  
  
• Asylum seekers have arrived in Moyale: Some 10,557 people from the Oromia region in Moyale, Ethiopia, have been displaced and have crossed the border to Moyale in Marsabit county, Kenya, since 10 March. More than 80 per cent of the asylum seekers are women and children, including 600 pregnant women and 1,500 children under five. World Vision Kenya is supporting response coordination and is providing water, sanitation and hygiene, child protection and non-food items.

For more information about World Vision's response activities, locations and other details, please download (pdf) our March 2018 Situation Report.