Over the weekend, heavy rains caused severe flooding across Nairobi, leaving dozens of people dead and thousands affected. Homes, roads and small businesses were submerged within hours as drainage systems could not handle the intense rainfall. (CGTN News)
For many people in the city’s urban informal settlements, floods are not a rare disaster anymore — they have become a repeating reality of the last years.
Two NGOs in our network working in these communities are currently affected, TENDO and V.I.C.C.O.
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Their work focuses on women, children and young families who are trying to build more stable lives. Over the past months, many of them had started small micro-businesses producing high-quality hygiene products — soap, sanitary products and cleaning items — creating income and dignity for their families.
But the floods have washed through homes and small production spaces.
Basic equipment, raw materials and storage supplies are damaged or destroyed. For families living in very fragile conditions, this means losing in one night what they carefully built over many months.
Yet what we see again and again in these communities is resilience.People clean up, rebuild and start again.
Right now, however, they cannot do it alone.
We are mobilizing support to help partners in Nairobi:
- replace destroyed production materials• restore small hygiene-product micro businesses• provide emergency supplies for women and children• help families restart their livelihoods quickly
Even small contributions can help a family get their income source back within days instead of months.
👉 If you would like to support the recovery efforts, please reach out or contribute here:
Floods in Nairobi’s informal settlements and our SCN centers. Can you help? https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/9njLtnrakp
Moments like this remind us why long-term work in vulnerable communities matters so much. The goal is not only to help people recover from crises — but to build systems where one flood does not destroy a family’s future.
Thank you to everyone standing with these communities.
Go Kenya, go future! 