Piga Climate Picha Photo Competition Entries

September 2010

WINNER: Turkana North girls searching for precious gold called water

RUNNER UP: The camel is "the desert ship". We learnt in History that it was used in the Trans Saharan Trade - crossing the mighty Sahara desert, but here in Samburu, during the recent drought 2009, "the desert ship" succumbed!

SHORTLISTED: This sandy dry river bed or lugga has not seen any water for months as evidenced by the trash that has accumulated by the roadside in the border town of Mandera in north eastern Kenya near Somalia and Ethiopia. Successive years of crippling drought brought

about by climate change has greatly affected the already meagre water sources of the pastoralist Somalis.

SHORTLISTED: Mount Kenya. There is snow to be seen at the top, which is impressive for a mountain on the Equator. Despite that, people who have lived with the mountain longer than I have say that all of the rocky parts in the picture should be white. Estimate is that 15-20 years

from now there will be no snow at all.

Hurri hills rangeland in upper eastern province of Kenya. Previously a reliable grazing area evenduring severe drought but now not able to support livestock in normal periods.

Dry River Thika 2009. One of the biggest rivers that feeds into River Tana and into the Indian Ocean. A dry rivers means no water for communities living around it.

Climate Action: Thousands of Kenyan youth have been speaking out and mobilizing on climate change. Youth action on climate is a growing movement on climate justice and leadership all

over the world!

Communities in Mwingi, Eastern Kenya, braved the scorching sun to tell their stories about how climate change is affecting them. Hardest of all was the fact that it had not rained for five years.

Isaiah Kipyegon T.

This is a photo taken last year in northern Tanzania during the drought. All the livestock were being driven to this river for watering and you could see them coming from quite far away with

all the dust.

The almost dry Mara River. The wildebeest were waiting for the right time to cross from Serengeti National Park, Tanzania to Maasai Mara National Park, Kenya.

The Snow Cap of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Women and children are often the most vulnerable to hunger, especially in drought-stricken and increasingly arid lands in Kenya like the border town of Mandera near Somalia and Ethiopia. Successive years of crippling drought brought about by climate change has burdened food and water supplies for the pastoralist Somalis of Mandera. This Somali woman's older daughter, Fatima, has been classified as severely malnourished and was under a therapeutic feeding program at the local community hospital. Her younger sister was fortunate

enough to breastfeed from their mother.

Bridge with almost no water under? This was taken along Loitokitok to Nairobi route last 2nd August 2010

Somali women and children huddle in dust-choked and unrelenting wind as they queue outside a food distribution center in the border town of Mandera, in north eastern Kenya near Somalia and Ethiopia.

Sandstorms are a common occurrence here. Successive years of crippling drought brought about by climate change has turned the landscape into a huge dust bowl and affected food and water supplies for the

pastoralist Somalis of Mandera. Malnutrition, particularly among young children, is widespread.

Makalia Falls at Nakuru National Park. The brown water means that there are less trees to hold the soil thus the erosion...

This photo is taken yesterday from Loitokitok. You can barely see the snow on top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Just 20 years ago the snow on Kibo would reach halfway down. Due to global

warming the snow melted, having sever consequences for the Maasai living there. Drought periods can take up to 20 months.

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‘Piga Climate Picha’ page – call for entrieshttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126535840715240 16 photos 8 entrants 61 participants (event attendees)

‘Pick a Winner’ page – vote for your favourite

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