What you can do about the current Kenyan Crisis:

Contribute to Relief Work:
www.mamamikes.com
You can buy vouchers through Mama Mike's which will be used to buy relief supplies for the Kenya Red Cross for those in displaced people's camps. Mama Mike's is trustworthy and they have waived their usual service fee. Click on “Buy a shopping voucher”. You can also go to links through Mama Mike's website to small local organizations appealing for assistance.

www.kenyaredcross.org
The Kenya Red Cross is providing the bulk of the assistance to people in internally displaced people's camps throughout the country.

Www.imcworldwide.org: International Medical Corps
IMC’s Emergency Response Team is on the ground, conducting rapid health assessments to determine how best to respond to the needs of people both in the Kibera slums and in the Rift Valley, who have had to flee their homes and have been left without income and food. IMC is operating mobile clinics in Kibera, seeing up to 300 patients a day, security permitting.


Call the White House at 202-456-1414 and ask to speak to the president. Urge him to support the demands by civil-society organizations in Kenya for an independent audit of the election results. Also, send an urgent e-mail message to the president through our online Legislative Action Center.

Message to give to the President:
Please use the power of your office to insist that all parties to the political crisis take the necessary steps to reach a peaceful settlement consistent with democratic processes.

Specifically, please express your strong support of the demands by Kenyan civil-society organizations for an audit of the presidential election vote to be conducted by an independent electoral oversight body.

International mediation is critical to resolving the crisis, as is an independent audit of the voting.

I also am concerned about the use of violence to legitimize the curtailing of fundamental human rights – including the freedoms of expression, assembly, and association.


Get Informed: Sources of Information on Current Happenings:
www.mamamikes.com: Mama Mike's, which is normally just a website where you can go to buy goods for people in kenya, pay school fees, etc., is maintaining a good compilation of photos, comments, videos, and articles. Click on “See more pictures of the kenyan situation”. Also has links to blogs and sites covering and supporting in current crisis.

Www.vumakenya.com: You can click on video clips to see latest news from Kenyan t.v.
Started by a Kenyan studying at Harvard Medical School, Vuma Kenya aims to give voice to displaced people and relief workers, create a network of concerned Kenyans and global citizens, fund disaster relief efforts, and build capacity of community groups to respond to the crisis. They will organize and highlight events such as benefit concerts, prayer vigils, fundraisers and other initiatives within the extended Kenyan community, that strive to spread a message of peace, reconciliation, raise awareness or seek solutions to our country’s crisis.


Www.jumptv.com: You can watch Kenya Broadcast Corporation on this site.

BBC and CNN online have been keeping up to date on the situation.

Www.nationmedia.com: Daily Nation newspaper on the web.

Www.eastandard.net: East Africa Standard newspaper on the web.