The Bishop of Garissa Diocese appeals to our Partners to help us mobilise emergency funding to restore food support for refugee members of our diocese. We are obliged under the Government of Kenya’s recent Shirika Plan to be involved as a refugee-hosting community.

The 2025 drastic funding shortfalls are forcing us to scale back or completely stop operations in the Dadaab Refugee camp. The lack of funds led to food cuts affecting over 480,000 refugees in Dadaab refugee camps within the Garissa Diocese. These families, now facing starvation where they expected safety, who had fled war, persecution, and unimaginable trauma, are now facing famine. A mother whose father was a former Anglican Bishop in South Sudan, now in one of our Anglican churches in Ifo, Dadaab, appealed:

I was living in Uganda, but things were not good, and I decided to come to Kenya in April 2025. I have 2 children with Autism, and my husband left me due to the condition of our children. I depend on neighbours for the small food they have. Life is worse, but I have hope in God.

The situation has become so dire that some refugee mothers are haunted by their starving children. According to Eskinder Negash , the USCRI President and CEO, “Behind every statistic is a child going hungry, a mother skipping meals so her baby can eat, a teenager forced to abandon school to search for food or work”. Already, the halting of cash-transfer assistance has eliminated the refugees’ ability to purchase essential proteins, vegetables, and supplementary items. We require funds to assist refugees in Dadaab, Kenya (among them are 200 Anglican households). Without support to boost food security, even more refugees will starve in the looming man-made famine in the Refugee camps, should the levels of food insecurity continue. There is an urgent need to act quickly, without compromising the safety and dignity of our refugee Christian brothers who have nowhere else to turn. The Diocese is appealing for cash-based assistance for 200 households attending 10 churches in the camp and reopening nutrition support services, which will reinforce child protection measures in Dadaab, Kenya’s refugee camps.