Mandera County needs help urgently to save 500,000 lives

A young boy quenches his thirst as goats scramble for water at Wangaidhan water point in Mandera West Sub County on March 14th, 2021. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Fellow Kenyans, I passionately appeal for help for families in northern Kenya who do not know where their next meal will come from.

In Mandera, just like in the neighbouring Marsabit, Wajir, Tana River and Garissa among others counties, there is acute water shortage as drought reaches its peak.