Kenya: Empowering Voices – Vihiga’s Journey towards the Right to Food

Hunger Meets Lack of Political Participation

Powerlessness makes you frustrated. And you can’t eat it either: That’s how Naomi Amwayi felt for years. “I had already resigned myself to it,” says the mother of six from Vihiga, a county in western Kenya, about support money promised by the state that never materialized. “In 2014, I registered with the public Cash Transfer Program because I am physically disabled,” she recalls. But there was simply no response to her claim for 2,000 shillings (around 14 euros) a month.