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The situation is pathetic.
The Mwatate DO has directed all Kids wether school going or not to be beneficiaries of the WFP school feeding programme saturdays inclusive.
This food has become inadequate, the located quantity which was calculated on the number of pupils in a school for five days a week is now feeding more kids for six days a week.

The ailing and elderly too are having it rough especially those withought philanthropic relatives the food for work programme ground to a halt and whatever reaches them is too little to go around.

I approached WFP and was told they only allocate food aid after the Government has shown concern and requested them to, a process that begins from the DOs' office.

We all know after a drought like this the rains come and all the running water goes untapped.

Let us ask each Investor in the tourism sector in Taita through their Corporate Social Responsibility budget allocation help us harvest this water. dig bore holes and promote social awareness among the youth.

You have good ideas Mwalugha and I urge you to keep it up! Boreholes are fantastic for water supply. For long term uses, people must harvest water from the river beds and store it in dams for drier months. Let it not all end up in the sea via the large rivers.

Also, I did suggest growing Baobab trees everywhere in lower Taita. These trees capture water from the rains and store it in their thick stems.......sometimes 4000 litres at a time. So, these can be our natural boreholes and the more, the better. Baobabs also produces many other products that are extremely beneficial to human health.

Next time people vote, make some of these issues a must for politicians.

BTW, if no one is doing enough about hunger in Taita, send pics in papers of people at the end of their tether.........it will jog the minds of politicians and donors to act. The media is a most effective tool.

it is very sad few wadawida turned up at the St Luke's church hall in Mombasa on Saturday to make their food and cash donations to support those affected by famine in dawida.

Thank God it has started raining in Taita, otherwise the situation is getting worse...

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Thanx Capri59,

Be informed throughout Taita hills all we used to know as all year round streams have turned into seasonal streams and the rivers into rivulets, all the dams should be desilted and more created.

There are Baobab trees which have grown naturally in Nyika areas.
What cost effective method should wananchi use to tap the water from their trunks?

Mka-righa
Aloe Vera is planted in nyika just creat more market.

Good to know that it is raining again. I hope that one day Taitas will develop more dams to store this water closer to where it will be needed in the drier months in future. Most rich states like Carlifornia depend on surface irrigation for their agriculture and water they harvest during the rains. The city of Atlanta depends on a sub-surface dam to meet all its water requirements. So, Taita can do the same in smaller scale. At least we should try and do something......!

it is good to hear it is raining in dawida ,hoping people had already prepared the land ready for planting

Taita will have more water in its streams and rivers when the forest cover in the Hills is regenerated to its pre-1978 levels.....it has to increase by 50 % from what it is now. Stop using firewood and switch to biogas. Most families have a cow or two, some hens or goats. the wastes will be enough substrate for biogas. They can be built from fired matafwari too, circular with some cement.
Remember, if people want to see different results, they have to try different ways of doing things. If people keep doing the same things, they will keep on getting the same results.