It appears when it rains in Anyango’s life, it pours. Early this year after delivering, she was evicted from her house.
“After breaking up with my husband I rented my own place. Hell broke loose when I lost my job due to the pandemic. So I was evicted. I was devastated and I wanted to kill myself,” she confesses as she looks away.
The Kenya Red Cross Society tele-counselling helpline 1199 came in handy for Anyango as she desperately reached out for help.
“I saw the help number on TV. I decided to call because I knew I had reached a breaking point and I was falling apart. All I wanted was to end my life. I just wanted to leave this world. And I was going to take my newborn with me, but the counselling worked,” she says.
An Application of Flood Risk Analysis for Impact Based Forecasting in Kenya
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Floods continue to be the most devastating natural disasters, whose frequency and intensity are increasing due to climate change. Extreme floods have posed significant risks to most parts of Kenya making it one of the most flood-prone country in the world. As such, disaster resilience projects are important to reduce the impacts of extreme flood events to vulnerable communities. The flood risk analysis approach aims to provide essential information for formulation of disaster prevention policies and decision-making processes for disaster risk reduction.
The Kenya Red Cross Society through the International Centre for Humanitarian Affairs(ICHA),has been implementing the Innovative Approaches for Response Preparedness (IARP) project, which seeks to reduce the impact of climate-related disasters on vulnerable communities through an Early Warning Early Action system. The project employs the in
Bluebird Aviation reports rise in emergency medical evacuation
Regional high ranking airline
Bluebird Aviation says the number of travellers seeking emergency medical attention rose significantly in the last quarter of 2020.
The airline said it recorded more emergency medical request in 2020, fuelled by the
coronavirus pandemic.
Bluebird Aviation General Manager, Captain Hussein Mohammed said while the number of patients seeking to be evacuated to qualified medical facilities took an upward trajectory, the airline did not record any COVID-19 patient during the period under review. “So far we haven’t carried a COVID-19 patient, but we have seen emergency medical requests soar in the last several months. That was an upshot compared to the previous years,” said Captain Mohammed.
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Publication Date January 15, 2021 If health and risk communication information and approaches remain static and are not updated to reflect the changing concerns, questions, and suggestions from communities, they will not remain relevant or trusted by people and the epidemic response will fail. This update to the risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) strategy for COVID-19 in Africa first set out in March 2020 (
see Related Summaries, below) reflects lessons learned since the start of the pandemic and focuses on what the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is aiming to achieve over the coming year, including on building and maintaining trust in the vaccine.