UWT Kenya

Food Distribution Goes On…

Alhamdulillah, today we carried on distributing much needed food packages in 10 villages long into the night, around the rural areas of North-East Kenya providing large food sacks to approximately 1,000 families.

This was greatly appreciated by all families who benefitted. The residents of these villages deep inside these rural areas are traditionally pastoral communities. They would rear livestock like goats, cows and camels. Since the drought worsened, most of these families lost large numbers of animals which affected their income and food supplies.

Most families have suffered for the past many months and have lost children and parents and many women we’ve met have been left widowed due the death of their husbands to illnesses arising from malnutrition leaving behind thousands of orphaned children.

Latest statistics show that some 3.8 million people in North-East Kenya are greatly at risk due to the ongoing famine.

 

Above: Two elderly men carry away an Ummah Welfare Trust food package to their needy wives and children.

Above: An elderly brother thanks Ummah Welfare Trust for coming out thousands of miles from the UK with donations from his brothers and sisters to his small village deep inside rural Kenya.

Above: This is the Imam of this small village in North-East Kenya. He has been here teaching the deen of Allah (swt) for thirty years without any pay.

He was very grateful to Ummah Welfare Trust for providing his community with food. Like a true and sincere da'ee, he was more concerned about the iman of the children of his community when he spoke to me.

Above: This is what Ummah Welfare Trust is all about. To work for the sake of Allah (swt) with hope only for His reward and to put smiles upon the faces of the orphans of this Ummah.