Description of the disaster:
New cases of cholera continue to emerge following an outbreak that was picked by surveillance system in the last week of December 2014 in Nairobi County. A total of 21 counties have so far reported cases, and while some of these have successfully controlled the outbreak, a number of counties such as Kirinyaga, Embu, Baringo and Migori (among others) have reported new cases after successfully controlling the first wave of outbreak and declared as cholera free. Other counties such as Baringo and Wajir are reporting cases in sub counties that had previously reported none (Some of the counties are vast and outbreak in one part of the county may not be related to an outbreak in another part of the county in terms of transmission).
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) allocated CHF 140,244 from the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 2 August 2015, as a loan to support the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) respond to the needs of the affected population. The DREF loan operation was intended to support 30,893 households (185,360 people) in the Wajir and Baringo counties, with health care, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene promotion activities; over a period of three months.
This appeal has not received any funding to date and IFRC, on behalf of the Kenya Red Cross, would like to encourage partners to consider supporting the Appeal to enable KRCS provide assistance to the targeted beneficiaries through the planned activities as detailed in the Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA).