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The Grand Charity – 1st December 2006

£10,000 for Kenyan Floods Appeal

In response to an appeal to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by flooding in Kenya, The President of the Grand Charity has approved an emergency grant of £10,000 to the British Red Cross.

Crops and farmland have been damaged and destroyed by heavy rainfall across the Coastal, Western and Northern Eastern Provinces of Kenya. Earlier this year, many of the same people lost their cattle and livelihoods when the North of the Country was hit by a drought. Adding to the already disastrous humanitarian situation are fears of outbreaks of water-borne diseases, including cholera.

The money from the Grand Charity will help to supply food, blankets, water purification tablets, medical supplies and seeds. Today, four members of a British Red Cross Logistical Emergency Response Unit will fly to Kenya to assist in the unfolding crisis and over the next six months the Red Cross will assist people stranded from their homes and help them to restore their livelihoods.

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Please contact Natasha Treweek, Information & Communications Officer, on 020 7395 9394.