A total of 28,000 households from poor families in Tana River and Wajir counties on Saturday received meat to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha from a non-governmental organisation.
Arid Land Development Focus, a Wajir-based organisation, with the support of Secour Islamic France slaughtered 250 goats and shared out the meat
The majority of the beneficiaries were displaced by the April floods and are from poor family backgrounds.
According to the ALDEF chief executive officer Ahmed Ibrahim Abdi, the Eid cerebration forms part of sharing with the less fortunate in society.
The exercise will cost ALDEF Sh6.1 million for three days.
“The Tana River community has been affected by three levels of disasters. They were affected by floods twice, around November/December last year and the April/May/June," Abdi said.
"Most of families here lost their crops, which were ready for harvesting. Then came the locust devastation. The majority of them don't have food and we found it wise to support,” he added.
The CEO said a similar exercise was simultaneously taking place in Wajir, where 700 goats were slaughtered and shared to 21,000 households in 16 pre-urban villages.
In Tana River 700 households will benefit and 250 goats allocated to them.
Among the IDP camps that benefited from the donation in Tana River include Sombo, Anole, Taleo, Korio and Hamaress
Jimeo Mohamed Hassan, a resident of Dida, thanked ALDEF for remembering them and enabling them celebrate Eid-ul-Adha with the rest of the Muslim world.
