ADRA checks in on the recipients of their programs regularly to build relationships, understand their situation, and learn what transformation can be for them and their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Horn of Africa is experiencing the worst drought in four decades, and many leave the region in hopes to better their livelihoods. Regina is one of the millions of people impacted by the drought that has left 80% of the region food insecure. This is her story, and her fight for her and her family\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADRA:<\/strong> Tell me a little bit about yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regina: <\/strong>\u201cI live in this house with my adult daughter son, and three grandchildren. My husband passed away 12 years ago. He is the one who taught me how to farm. We planted pigeon peas, mung beans, black-eyed beans, and corn. It has been very hard raising children and providing for the family without him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA<\/strong>: Have you been able to plant this year?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regina:<\/strong> [With tears in her eyes] \u201cI have no hope to plant this season. I have been doing that for the past two years and it hasn\u2019t rained. The seeds they in the ground and then after a while, they just rot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA: <\/strong>Are you able to water your garden from the tap you have?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regina:<\/strong> \u201cI must pay for water, it is metered. It is five shillings for every jerry can. The water fees pay for the repair of the community pump. I only use water to cook and water the livestock. I have 5 goats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA:<\/strong> Do you have any other livestock?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regina: <\/strong>\u201cI had 2 cows. They died from lack of food back in February. The cows also helped me plow my large fields. That is also another reason why I haven\u2019t planted. I am too weak to do it by hand. I used to have 16 goats. I would sell some of my goats, but I can\u2019t even do that. They are too thin. Someone came last week to look at them. After seeing them, he said he couldn\u2019t buy them because they are too sickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA: <\/strong>How did the ADRA food distribution impact your family?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regina:<\/strong> \u201cThe grandkids were at school every day! All of us had so much energy because we were eating multiple meals every day. I even built that fence behind me! I had so much energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ADRA school feeding also helped my kids because if there was no food at home at least they could get good at school\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA:<\/strong> What is your biggest concern right now?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regina:<\/strong> \u201cMy biggest concern is food. There is no food. And the kids schooling. They are often sent home because of unpaid school fees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADRA:<\/strong> Is there anything you would like to tell the world?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regina:<\/strong> \u201cCan we have more food? IT hurts me to see my kids come back from a long day at school to nothing to eat. Rain would solve all of my problems, but I have to just wait on God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The drought in the Horn of Africa is a dire situation. Our teams continue to respond to this crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El Cuerno de \u00c1frica est\u00e1 sufriendo la peor sequ\u00eda en cuatro d\u00e9cadas. Regina es una de los millones de personas afectadas.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[785,42,615,609,937,589],"tags":[386,1064],"class_list":["post-26729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-agriculture","category-blog","category-food-assistance","category-kenya","category-livelihoods","tag-drought","tag-horn-of-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47222,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26729\/revisions\/47222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}