Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 05:24:03 -0700 (PDT)

BY DICKENS WASONGA JOURNALIST-KISUMU.

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At the close of last month, a total of 4,019 Kenyans were still residing in what has now become known as IDP camps within Nyanza and Western provinces alone.

According to Mrs. Pamela Indiaha, the regional manager-Kenya Red Cross Society, the displaced persons who constitute 668 families are too afraid to go back to their homes until adequate security is quaranteed by the gorvernment.

Speaking to journalists at her Kisumu office Mrs. Indiaha said her organisation will not close the main camps as widely expected but will continue to give humanitarian support to the victims of the post election skirmishes.

She disclosed that Red Cross managed to give humanitarian assistance to 55,0000 people who were affected by the violence from the two provinces.

At the hieght of the skirmishes,over 200,000 people recieved assistance from Red-Cross inform of food and non-food items while at the transit camps established to help those who were returning back to their homes of origin.

The organisation established 300 camps during the violence to host those who were fleeing from western part of the country. It also supplied 8,000 metric tons of food to all the displaced people country-wide.

She disclosed that the humanitarian organization was in the process of tracking down people who are already begining to re-settle in their homes of origin.

In Siaya,Bondo and Rachuonyo,registration of the returnees was already underway.

She added that recovery plans were on-going in many districts in western Kenya to see how violence victims can be re-intergreted back to their communities.

So far the organisation has managed to re-unite 200,000 children who were displaced with their families country-wide.

Another 669 children are still being tracked down in abid to re-unite them with their parents.

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