Claude Nikondeha, as a native of Burundi and our staff person in Africa, has many connections within the east African region that is affected by a severe famine.  Through this network of friends and churches he is strategizing a food initiative with the goal of reaching a refugee camp in Northern Kenya with a truck load of provisions – 80,000 kilograms (80 tons) of corn, beans and water.  This amount of food can feed 40,000 families (or about 280,000 people) in northern Kenya. 

We will be working with Community of Faith partners in Burundi and Uganda to collect food, since food is plentiful in Uganda.  We will coordinate with our friends in Kenya for the truck to transport the food to the north.  Together, Community of Faith friends in east Africa will deliver the food to the refugee camp, all of us together joining God’s food distribution chain from Houston to northern Kenya.