Hard times for families in the Malindi hinterland, as in many other areas of Kenya, arisen from the prolonged drought and scourge by the rise in subsistence food prices.
Last Saturday, an initiative of solidarity came from the farm of the Italian NGO Karibuni in Langobaya, involving more than four hundred people.
The local community along with Karibuni selected the poorest people and families in need and distributed free corn and vegetables produced in NGO camps and greenhouses.
This is not the purpose for which Karibuni has prepared the great project of the Langobaya farm, which instead aims to teach self-restraint and create a subsistence food chain to work and trade it to the local population, and also sell it to itself At competitive prices.
But the recent weeks' emergency urged the Jackson Kanai project coordinator and President Gianfranco Ranieri to undertake an emergency operation. With the help of the local "Chief", distribution took place.
"We are happy," commented Ranieri, "a long line of people have been able to have food to alleviate this dramatic moment of food emergency." The corn was cultivated and ground in the Karibuni farms, and local staff worked free of charge in picking and grinding corn As a personal contribution to the problems of our community, and this and the most beautiful cooperation. Again, for Karibuni, the phrase "helping them at home" is a concrete thing, and it's not just empty words to effect. "