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How Muslim flood victims kept the faith during Ramadhan in IDP camps

Tana River floods

Boys swimming in stagnant waters that brought by floods that cut off a section of the road at Madogo in Tana River County that leads to Garissa town on December 18, 2023.


Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • Unlike other Muslims who wake up to the morning meals commonly known as ‘daku’, the survivors of floods in Garsen and Galole camps wake up to the harsh sun
  • The little food they find has to be rationed to last another day as the earnings of the next day are not guaranteed



As Muslims worldwide enter the final days of the Ramadhan period, hundreds of Islamic families living in Internally Displaced Camps in Tana River county have not had it easy.

For the more than 300 families who were displaced from their homes by floods during last year’s rainy season, this has been the toughest Ramadhan ever.