Members of the Lindum Lincoln and Grantham Kesteven Rotary Clubs have answered a desperate call for help from Meru in Kenya. Hit by the pandemic over 300 homeless children no longer had food due to the absence of discarded hotel and restaurant waste (lockdown closures) – their normal source.
The number of locals living on the streets had increased by those arriving from the countryside, desperate due to parental abandonment and the crop destruction from locust attack.
The two Lincolnshire clubs led an appeal, which raised over £7500. This allowed local Rotarians, other volunteers, even children from a local orphanage helping, to get a dinner to the street kids – at a cost of £90 for 300 meals.
These emergency measures over two months moved the local authority to step in, even putting 150 of the children into a youth service skills training programme.
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