Mishek and Samson are smiling because they know they have enough food for their family for a month.
The two former street boys are having to stay at home as part of Kenya's lockdown measures to combat Covid 19, but their mother struggles to cope (which is why they went to the streets in the first place.We have been providing the boys and their families (and 140 more from our Sunshine Centre), with emergency aid since the end of March. And we have been helping people in the community made vulnerable because they have lost their jobs or seen their income drop.
In total, we have we have been able to reach out with emergency aid to over 1,200 beneficiaries from 150 families, and have supplied nearly 100,000 litres of free, clean water to vulnerable families.