Elderly abandoned as Kilifi youth flee to towns

Kahaso Wakatondo, 86, drinks water a Good Samaritan had given to her at her home at Ndarako village, Ganze in Kilifi County. (Photo: Kelvin Karani/Standard)

It is 1.30 pm and 86-year-old Kahaso Wakatondo is resting on a tattered mat outside her shanty at Ndarako village in Gede, Ganze Constituency.

Wakatondo is all alone after her grandsons, who used to fend her, relocated to Mombasa together with their families in the face of hunger ravaging parts of Ganze in Kilifi County.