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BISHOP CHARLES SPREADS HOPE AND DISTRIBUTES FOOD AND BEDDINGS TO VICTIMS OF FLOODING

The Sixth Mt. Kenya South Rt. Rev'd Canon Charles Muturi today came face to face with the dire situation of Christians dispaced by floods within our Diocese.

In a section of Gathanga in Muongoiya Deanery, residents are not only grappling with above average showers of rain, underground water for almost a week and half now has been pilferating to the surface submerging their homes.

The efforts to drain out the water via channels have been futile with government interventions absent. Bishop Muturi had to personally reach out to the authorities for assistance standing his ground until help arrived.

Property of unknown value has been destroyed with hundreds displaced. The affected have been forced to flee the only home they know and spend the night with relatives, while others have opted to rent houses as they await the water to subside.

"I have never seen or heard anything like this in all my 43 years. The same applies to my father, who is double my age." One of the victims who only escaped with the clothes upon his body narrated.

Elsewhere in Muoroto Kabùri-ìnì village in Anmer in Tatu Deanery, Cathedral Archdeaconry, dozens of residents were displaced on Saturday night after a stream that runs through the settlement metamorphosed into a water body overnight submerging their dwellings.

A neighbouring settlement in the village is also submerged after the waters of the uphill Ndùndù Swamp swelled after an overnight downpour. Residents were woken by rising waters in the wee hours of the night, leaving little room to save any property. Residents narrated how they rescued a section of their half drowned livestock in the morning. The basin like terrain of the area makes it impossible for the water to drain out without the assistance of heavy machinery. Bishop Charles was accompanied by Anmer Vicar Rev'd Erickson Mugo.

Just as in the case of Gathanga, residents here are also staring at a gruesome sanitation crisis as latrines and wells alike fill up posing a looming health hazard while the stagnant water becomes a perfect breeding ground for parasites.

The Bishop accompanied by Raiyani Vicar Rev'd Capt. Matthew Njoroge visited a family that narrowly escaped demise after a tree fell upon their house, splitting it into two. The patriarch of the home had just stepped outside in the rain to check out a iron sheet that was flapping noisily against the wind when all of a sudden the tree fell on the house at the exact position he was previously sitted. His wife and son, who were in the house, escaped unscathed.

The flooding situation in various parts of the Diocese is now reaching catastrophic proportions with weather forecast predicting unrelinting rains.

Never has been the command, 'love your neighbour as you love yourself' applied better. All of us can soften the misery of flood victims by donating foodstuffs and beddings to the Bishop’s office at Bishop Kariuki Center in Wangige.

The Sixth will resume his visits to the affected next week.