But serving my community this way means a lot to me because they are able to understand and take action against disasters," Ewaar told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in his village in Turkana county. Kenya is suffering one of its worst droughts in decades https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/usaid-provide-kenya-with-255-mln-drought-administrator-2022-07-22, and the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) in June said the number of people facing hunger and starvation as a result had risen to 4.1 million - a 17% increase on the previous month.