HHRD NEWSLETTER

73rd Edition April 2021

Distribution of Ramadan Food Parcels to Vulnerable families in .

Program Highlights:

 Seasonal (Ramadan)

 Orphan Support

 Focus Area: Water for Life

 Kenya  In-Kind Gifts 

Seasonal (Ramadan)

The Prophet (Saw) Said: “Whoever Feeds a Person Who Is Breaking His Fast Will RAMADAN FOOD PROGRAM 2020 IMPLEMENTATION IN AFRICA Earn the Same Reward as Him Without Anything Being Lessened from The Reward of the Fasting Person.” (At- No No. of Country Location Tirmidhi). Ramadan is a special time of . beneficiaries year, a time when Muslims around the world take a step back from their daily Kibera 1,300 Mukuru Kwa Njenga routines and focus on community, 975 (Orphans) charity, fasting and prayer. SDLC 325 Mukuru Kwa Njenga The program is aimed at helping the 130 (Elderly) orphans, Refugees, IDP’s, handicapped & Lodwar 1,625 poor fasting Muslims with food packages 1 Kenya Thika 1,625 and Iftar dinners in the month of Madogo 1,625 Ramadan. HHRD distributes Ramadan SDLC Madogo 325 food packages every year to communities Isiolo 1,625 who live in marginalized areas in Africa. Kilifi 1,625

Through Ramadan project in Africa, Murang'a 650 HHRD reached out to more than 55,000 (Orphans) 1,950 Mogadishu (IDP) 650 beneficiaries. The project was 2 Somalia SDLC Mogadishu 780 implemented in the following areas. Baidoa 2,600

Kismayo 1,950 3 Uganda Butambala 2,600 4 Tanzania Kisarawe 2,600 5 Yemeni Refugees in Somalia Bosaso 1,300 6 650

7 Yemeni Refugees in Somaliland Hargeisa 650 8 South Refugees in Kenya Kakuma 2,600

9 Congolese Refugees in Kenya Kakuma 650 10 Ethiopian Refugees in Kenya Moyale 2,600

Djibouti (Yemeni Refugees) 2,665 11 Djibouti 2,145 12 Gambia Banjul 1,950 1,300 13 C.A.R Refugees 2,600 N'Djamena 1,950 14 C.A.R Refugees 2,600 15 Blantyre 1,625 16 Bujumbura 1,300 17 Gauteng 1,950 18 Jigjiga 1,950 19 Democratic Republic of Congo Kisangani 650 Total 56,095

Orphan Support

K.C.P.E 2021 Results: Kenya’s Ministry of Education released this year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education results highlighting major improvements despite the temporary closure of the institutions due to Covid-19 pandemic. HHRD registered 131 students across the six clusters who sat for the exam this year.

Social organizers visited the students who sat for the exams and received their results. Abrar Adam one of HHRD sponsored students under our Orphan Support Program in Kilifi, Kenya was the best performed student with 365/500 marks among the 1,600 students sponsored in Kenya.

Water for Life

Water for Life Program's goal is to reach out to No. of No. of communities in water scarce areas to acquire No. Country Location water wells Beneficiaries safe drinking water points. The approaches included construction of water wells, training of 1. Kenya Bungoma 10 9,756

community on water well maintenance & repair, 2. Somalia Kismayo 1 1,800 hygiene sessions & water treatment techniques. 3. Uganda Mpigi 5 5880 During the month, water for life team in Kenya, 4 Tanzania Pwani Mainland 2 4866 Somalia, Uganda and Tanzania carried out inauguration of 18 water well projects in 18 Total 18 22,302 locations across the countries. The water wells benefited over 22,000 people

In-Kind Gifts

Millions of internally displaced people in Somali lack of access to screening services and important information about COVID-19.

Our team in Somalia distributed 1 container of Non-Food Items (NFIs) at Gashaan IDP Camp in Mogadishu. The distribution benefited a total of 15000 people in the camp.

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