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We urgently need your help to send funds for desperately needed food, blankets and mattresses, cooking pots and charcoal stoves, and clothes for the many members of Maji Mazuri in Kenya that have been displaced by the recent riots.

As many of you know, violence erupted after disputed national elections at the end of last month, and as many as 1,000 people have lost their lives and several hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes. The situation has been most serious in the west of Kenya, and in the slums of Nairobi, which is where many of Maji Mazuri's projects are active.

While no one from Maji Mazuri has been killed, two have been injured, and many have lost everything to looters. Others have still to be accounted for.

Imagine the plight of the family of Samuel K., who is one of our micro business loan members. He and his wife Grace, their 3 year-old daughter Jane and her grandmother, live together in a shack in Mathare Valley just like those above. Their home was looted and everything was taken, even their clothes. Samuel's business selling chickens was wrecked and all his stock stolen. They have nothing but the clothes they stand up in. We need $190 to provide a minimum of basic contents for their home. It will cost about $75 to re-establish his chicken business. Even with this help it will take Samuel months or years of hard work to recover fully.

Consider Ann N. who has two adult daughters and 5 grandchildren living with her. They, too, lost everything to looters. We estimate that it will cost us about $270 to provide them with basic bedding, clothes, cooking utensils and some emergency food.

It is important for you to know that Maji Mazuri is NOT tied to either side of the dispute. We have staff and members from all the major tribes in Kenya, including the Luo, the Kalenjin, the Maasai, the Kikuyu and the Kamba. We serve anyone who needs us. We take no political stands. We just want peace and the rule of law to return so that people can rebuild their lives with your help.

So, please help us! Please consider making a gift of $50 or $100 or whatever you can manage. We know that many of you are already generous supporters, but this humanitarian crisis leaves us with no choice but to ask for something extra from us all.

You can use the donation form on our website to use your credit card. Be sure to note on the donation that it is for the Emergency in Kenya. You can also send a check to:

Thank you and God Bless!

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