Introduction
It’s one month now since the fateful Sunday of 15th June 2014, when Mpeketoni Town in Lamu County, was attacked with unknown gunmen, leaving many households displaced and over 87 lives lost.
Current Situation Progress
The situation has been calm in most parts of Mpeketoni, and Lamu during the week, especially in Mpeketoni Town the situation is almost getting back to normal. Although in Hindi area there is still tension, as most of the people are still camping at the Hindi Prison grounds. There are three camps currently with over 984 displaced HHs namely; Kipini with 259HH, Mavuno Kitale 225HHs and Hindi Prison where over 3000 (500HHs) displaced people hosted especially at night while during the day they go back to their farms.
The school learning program is still affected as many schools have not yet resumed. Only class 8 students from Witu together with those from Pandanguo are learning at Witu Primary School. The other schools remained closed due to the teachers’ absence, as many of them are reported to have left the area, in fear of repeated attacks. In Mpeketoni schools resumed but students are few. In Hindi Division, students from various schools who are between class four and seven go to Hindi Primary school, while class 8 and form four students go to Hindi Secondary School and the rest are (from form one to three) are not schooling.
Current Interventions
KRCS has continued to support the food distribution donated by the government, in various areas.
The recent one was conducted on 17th July 2014, where food was distributed in 7 villages at Witu with a total of 283HHs reached with 114 bags of 50kgs rice. The villages include; Lake Amu 45HHs (18 bags, Mtondoni 28HHs, 12 bags, and Mandani 40HHs (16 bags), Mirunji 30HH (12 bags), Sinambio 60 HHs (24 bags) , Zebra 70HHs (28 bags) and at Tewe 10HHs (4 bags) . These households are not displaced, but their food products were destroyed by the flush floods in the farms. In total 1,961HHs have been reached, since the attack with relief food from the national government.KRCS constructed 8 sanitation units at Hindi Prison grounds in support of the large number of displaced populations.
A medical out- reach is planned to be conducted at Mavuno Kitale camp, from tomorrow on 19th July 2014 by KRCS.
