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Jambo!
November 2021
The Crisis Intensifies
Feasts and Famines
Thanksgiving feasts typically represent the bounty of our lives, celebrated with the people we love.

But while we are feasting in the US this week, a Kenyan college student died of starvation. He was not a Kenya Keys student, but we are heartbroken at this loss and what it represents.

Famine. A word we cannot begin to understand ravages students we hold precious. Failed harvests. Scarce water. Dead livestock.

Our students have never faced crises like this in their young lives.
Dare we ask – have we ever faced anything like this?
Families often eat only one meal a day, with no bread.
You can buy food on Market days if you have money and if can get to the market. But where does the subsistence farmer get money? And what of those who lost jobs or businesses because of Covid?

Food insecurities at home are concerning to students who are away at school. They know their younger siblings are going without food.
If a pandemic and a drought are not enough trauma, students face accelerated academic pressure due to closures last year. Tensions pushed students past a breaking point as they burned schools and dorms in protest.
Families are asked to pay for damages, despite them not being able to feed their children. They are also expected to replace personal items destroyed by fire.
What can be done?

Ensure that Kenya Keys continues to be a lifeline for our students.

Help cover the cost of meals and other vital supports for students like clothes, personal items, bedding, and travel. The cost of a single meal is just fifty cents.

Giving Tuesday Starts Today!
Invite your family, friends, neighbors, and employer to help!
Or text FAMINE to 50155
Written only as Rinda can, the following blog provides heartfelt insight into the circumstances for Kenya Keys students.
An Onslaught of Catastrophes - by Rinda Hayes

The drought that is the worst in memory; a third failed harvest. Livestock falling over dead from starvation. And when livestock die, people die; the earth is unable to produce enough for even a small child to live on. Pressure mounts, as the...

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