{"id":30788,"date":"2024-04-23T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/11206-households-displaced-since-the-start-of-heavy-rains\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:03:49","slug":"11206-households-displaced-since-the-start-of-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/11206-households-displaced-since-the-start-of-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"11,206 households displaced since the start of heavy rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 23 \u2013 The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) says 11,206 households have been displaced during the heavy rains that started last month. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on its X account, the society further indicated that 23 counties have also been adversely affected.<\/p>\n<p>It also pointed out that 188 people have been rescued even as 24,741 households continue feeling the direct effects of the ongoing heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>The agricultural sector also suffered, with 4,824 livestock being lost in the floods.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation stated that it had taken the necessary steps to assist those affected. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kenya Red Cross Society has proactively prepared for these challenges by ensuring prompt emergency responses, conducting search and rescue missions, prepositioning shelter kits and distributing essential supplies,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>It indicated that it has deployed tactical teams to assist and conduct thorough needs assessments to aid affected households in the aftermath of the heavy rains.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 23 \u2013 The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) says 11,206 households have been displaced during the heavy rains that started last month. In a statement on its X account, the society further indicated that 23 counties have also been adversely affected. It also pointed out that 188 people have been rescued even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}