The fire on Mount Kenya
NAIROBI, Feb 28 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Mount Kenya Trust, MKT, has launched an appeal for funds to help arrest spreading fires on the slopes of the famed Mount Kenya.
The trust, an organization dedicated to helping preserve and protect Mount Kenya on Wednesday started a fund raiser within Kenya seeking help douse the raging fires.
The fires, it said, had been raging for the past five days and efforts to quell them was getting out of hand hence the need to seek funding to curtail a looming danger.
Throughout the past five days, winds and extremely dry conditions have burnt hectares of moorlands and the fire is dangerously close to the forest. In some areas the forest is starting to catch – along with the bamboo regions.
“We are struggling to regain control. We are working with the Kenyan government and local partners around the clock, but resources and funding for the scale of the problem are scarce,” it said.
They announced local money transfer lines through which people could donate as well as their bank details. As at Wednesday evening, its crowdfunding appeal dubbed ‘Mount Kenya Fires had raised about £2,200 out of a target of £15,000.
The flexible nature of the funding module means they receive donations as and when they are made. Persons in organizations in the United States are also urged to donate via a fellow conservation outfit, the Tusk Fund.
Mount Kenya is burning and we urgently need funds to put out the fires raging on the northeastern slopes, the appeal page read. — NNN-AFRICANEWS
