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Nairobi landslide relief - the Riverside neighborhood

After the landslide, families in the Riverside neighborhood need clean water, roofing materials and bedding.

🇰🇪 Nairobi, Kenya2,106 views
Okello Kiprop Mbwambo
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Nairobi
The landslide hit the Riverside neighborhood on 22 July. My home was one of 55 damaged, and 8 families are still in temporary shelter at a borrowed warehouse. The first few days we shared what little we had. Now the cleanup has started, but we've no money for materials and winter or the rainy season is coming. Schools in the area have been closed, and the clinic lost its cold storage for vaccines. We're a small community of working families who have never asked for help before. We have formed a volunteer committee, and I'm the treasurer, so I'll post receipts for everything we buy. Funds go to building materials, water purification supplies, bedding, and food for families still in shelters. Where the $800 goes: • Bedding, blankets and mattresses: $145 • Clean water and purification supplies: $145 • Roofing sheets and timber: $510 I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
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Updates from Okello

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($295 in total) I made the first payment toward bedding, blankets and mattresses. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Quick update: $496 raised so far (62%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  3. Quick update: $465 raised so far (58%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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    “Best of luck. Thought of Okello all day after reading this.”

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    “Hope this helps. My neighbor told me about this one. - Girona”

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  • Eva J. Weber

    hope you get there. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Take care

    • Sosuke Kobayashi

      Hope things get better soon, Okello. Great idea, hope you get there. Don't give up.

      • Karina E. Núñez

        take care. Your post was clear and honest. My husband and I read this together. God bless.

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