The number of Kenyans needing ineed of food aid has double over the past three months to three million.
According to the Red Cross, the situation is now getting out of hand.
“The situation is getting worse every day. Malnutrition rates among children are steadily climbing. Children are getting sick, and livelihoods of families have been decimated following the loss of thousands of their livestock,” Dr Abbas Gullet, secretary general of the Kenya Red Cross Society, said in a statement.
“It is more and more difficult for people to access water -– people are having to travel for up to three times as long just to get water for their family.”
Like many of its neighbours, Kenya is suffering the effects of two failed rainy seasons in a row, hugely reducing crop harvests.