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No one thinks about sharing information on reproductive health or distributing condoms in camps because it is not a priority need, food is. [iStockphoto]
Leah Akoth* and her husband were fast asleep when hell broke loose. The raging flood water had broken through their mud-walled house. They jumped out of bed. Their children were screaming for help. Men risked it all to rescue women, children, people with disabilities and the elderly. They carried nothing.
In the morning, families that had previously lived well in their homesteads were desperate for basic needs. They had lost everything.
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