With over 100,000 children having the HIV infection in Kenya and approximately 10,000 expected to be born with or be infected with HIV in 2017 the need for medical care is remarkable. That statistic and the fact that there are over 2,000,000 orphans in Kenya and about half of those are orphaned because of AIDS or HIV make for dire needs that we are now focusing on at Gary Revel Ministries.
Over 20% of the homes in Kenya live on less than $1.00 a day. Many of the orphans come from homes that are led by a teenage orphan and don't have any responsible adult to be their guardian or provider.
We are planning a fundraising event to be held at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC in the Spring of 2018. Our goal is to raise $1,400,000 which we will use to bolster the guidance, provision, support and medical needs of children in general in Kenya with an emphasis on orphans and those with AIDS and HIV.
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The reason for our mission:
In Kenya, the people most vulnerable to food insecurity live in urban informal settlements and in the arid and semi-arid regions that make up 80 percent of the country’s land area.
A quarter of the population lives in these regions, which suffer from poverty, structural underdevelopment, conflict and disease. Droughts and unpredictable rain patterns exacerbate the situation, and 47 percent of the country’s overall population lives below the poverty line.
In arid and semi-arid counties, people tend to respond to drought-related crop and livestock loss by adopting harmful coping practices, such as selling their only money-earning assets, withdrawing children from school, and undertake income-generating activities that damage the environment.
High levels of malnutrition afflict the country’s poorest people. In the arid and semi-arid areas, around 369,000 children under 5 are suffering from acute malnutrition – with peaks of one in three in the most affected areas – and undernutrition is a leading cause of death among children under 5.
Chronic food insecurity combines with limited access to health services, inadequate sanitation and hygiene, and suboptimal care and feeding practices for young children. A quarter of Kenyan children are stunted, or small for their age. This is often irreversible.
The number of people that are acutely food insecure in Kenya has risen to 3.4 million for August 2017 – February 2018, up from 2.6 million for February - July 2017. This deterioration in food security mostly in the arid and semi-arid parts of the country has been the result of poor rainy seasons affecting crop and livestock productivity.