Yesterday went well. I was actually able to make two trips and ended up distributing over 9 metric tons of food to five different slum areas in Nairobi. We were able to reach 2,286 families. Thankfully WFP had their food stocks arrive in Nairobi today, and have already begun targeting the slum areas. They will be in much better position to fill this food security niche in Nairobi.

We are now re-assessing how we can best respond. The large opposition rally that was planned for tomorrow has now been canceled. That’s a very good thing. Hopefully tensions will continue to diffuse. As the political situation is sorted out, stability should continue to return. However, in terms of the humanitarian situation and how much loss has occurred, it will still take months to recover from what has happened. And of course there are even much longer-term consequences that this country will have to face in the realms of the economy, with the international community, etc.

In many ways I think the media went overboard, but regardless of the actualities here on the ground, the damage is done. I have had a few friends return to Kenya over the last few days, and each of their flights were near to empty; most passengers were not tourists (tourism is a huge source of income for this country).

Anyway, I won’t rant and rave too much. I simply wanted to let you know that yesterday went very well, and I’ll try to continue updating you as we try to get back to normal life here. Our office will remain closed tomorrow, despite the rally being called off.

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