Saving livelihoods during pandemic
Monday February 15 2021
Students of St Michael’s Secondary School at Mukuru take lunch while listening to Sister Mary Killeen. PHOTO | FAUSTINE NGILA | NMG
By FAUSTINE NGILA
Summary
In a lockdown period when schools and churches were closed, and travel restricted, the struggling families found it tougher surviving the harsh economic conditions.
Not knowing where and when to get the next meal tormented them, but food donations from the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP), non-profit organisations, the government and well-wishers kept them alive and kicking.
At the height of the pandemic, the government also issued a Sh2,000 stipend to slum dwellers in Nairobi.
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Pandemic a wake-up to world leaders on food frailties, WFP says Reuters 1/27/2021
By Nigel Hunt
Jan 27 (Reuters) - Vulnerabilities in the world s food supply system have been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, making global leaders more aware that if not fixed they could mean famine and mass migration, the head of United Nations World Food Programme said.
The crisis has disrupted supply chains across the globe, pushing 270 million people to the brink of starvation, David Beasley, the WFP s Executive Director, said at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum. If we don t receive the support and funds we need you will have mass famine, destabilization of nations and you will have mass migration and the cost of that is one thousand times more, Beasley said, adding there would be more COVID-type events.
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for emergency aid of $35m to fight hunger in southern Madagascar, hit by the coronavirus pandemic and a third consecutive year of drought.
“Some 1.35 million people are projected to be food insecure – 35 percent of the region’s population,” the WFP said in a statement on Tuesday.
“With severe malnutrition rates continuing to spiral and many children forced to beg in order to help their families eat, urgent action is required to prevent a humanitarian crisis.”
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the hit from a long-term drought, it said.