President Ruto Installed As Kenya Red Cross Society Patron, Announces Additional Sh2 Billion To Mitigate Effects Of Drought

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov, 1 – President William Ruto has appealed to the Kenya Red Cross Society to incorporate climate change in its scope of activities.

He said Kenya is in the grip of the worst drought in 40 years, and “a lot of work has to be done in mitigating its effects”.

The unprecedented wave of challenges, the President explained, calls for effective and transformative collaboration.

“Go further and join us in sensitising our communities about climate change and ways of building resilience,” he said.

He spoke on Tuesday when he was installed as the patron of the Kenya Red Cross Society at State House, Nairobi.

He urged the Society to use its capacity to mobilise communities to complement the government’s tree planting programme.

The President announced that the Govt had made available an extra Sh2 billion, in addition to Sh3.2 billion given earlier, to tackle famine in the country.