Prisoners Skip Lunch to Aid Drought Victims
From Times Wire Reports
Thousands of inmates in Kenya skipped lunch to send food to countrymen affected by drought, prison officials said.
Most of Kenya’s estimated 50,000 prisoners gave up their ration of beans and corn porridge on the day President Mwai Kibaki declared a national disaster and said about 2.5 million Kenyans would need famine relief in the next six months.
“Those suffering out there are our brothers and sisters, and we need them,” said One James Kamutu, an inmate at the Naivasha prison northwest of Nairobi.
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