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RACIDA Building Resilient Communities
For Sustainable Development

Founded in 2001, we work to build the capacity of vulnerable communities living in Arid and Semi-Arid lands across the Horn of Africa in preventing and mitigating the impact of hazards of communities at risk.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Rural Agency for Community Development and Assistance (RACIDA) is a regional non-profit organisation headquartered in Kenya and with country programmes in Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan. Our goals are to Provide Human Assistance, Build Resilience and Promote Peace and Security.
 
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“Out of a total of 244 water pans in the county, only 50 of them harvested water and even these were not full to capacity which meant they all dried up shortly after the depressed rains.” Hon Ibrahim Ali Roba, Govenor of Mandera

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842,000 people are estimated to die each year from diarrhoea as a result of unsafe drinking water, sanitation, and hand hygiene.

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1.1 billion people (15 per cent of the global population) practice open defecation; 949 million open defecators live in rural areas.

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2.1 billion people globally lack safe water at home

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Destoking – a real timely intervention

Destoking – a real timely intervention

Haretha is a mother of seven children; she and her husband are both unemployed. They also care for Haretha’s mother who is blind, old, wrinkled and all doubled up would not be a befitting description for her. She was beyond a common description of a poor person. Wretchedness of the wretched would sum up all […]

Killing two birds with one stone

Killing two birds with one stone

DESILTING OF HULLOW WATER PAN THROUGH “CASH FOR WORK” INJECTS CASH INTO THE LOCAL ECONOMY. By Mohamoud Duale and Abdi Omar Rural Agency for Community Development and Assistance (RACIDA) is one of the active local non-governmental organizations operating in the expansive water deficient Mandera district. One of the divisions in Mandera where RACIDA has an […]

Hunger safety net

MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2009 BLIND, INSANE AND TWICE LUCKY Edited by Veronicah NjokiPosted by Hunger Safety Net Blind, old, wrinkled and all doubled up would not be a befitting description for Suban Abdi Hassan. She was beyond a common description of a poor person. Wretchedness of the wretched would sum up all that she was. […]

Underground tank, a Survival in Burwaqo

The village of Barwaqo 28 kilometers to the west of the main settlement of Rhamu 73 KMs south west of Mandera town had 23 households a year ago. These people settled here after they lost all their stocks to the 2006 drought. The terrain to Mado where they normally fetch water is difficult and the […]