More than 4,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have been
registered by the Kenya Red Cross and IOM at an accommodation site
in Eldoret in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, the worst affected by
the recent violence in the country.

The two organizations have been working this week to prepare a
site at Eldoret's ASK Show Ground which would provide essential
shelter to many thousands of people left homeless since the
violence broke out nearly two weeks ago.

An estimated 120,000 people have been displaced in and around
Eldoret alone with at least 50,000 in various centres spread apart.
With information spreading on the availability of shelter and
essential provisions such as water and sanitation at the common
site at the ASK Showground, more IDPs are arriving.

All those at the site are being provided with material and
assistance as needed to construct shelters from wooden poles and
tarpaulins by IOM, the Kenya Red Cross and the CRS. Existing
sanitation facilities are being rehabilitated and new ones
constructed as needed. Work on the provision of lighting across the
site is expected to be completed by the end of today.

The UN's Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) has allocated IOM
over US$660,000 to manage and coordinate IDP camps being set up in
response to the crisis and for its provision of logistics and
transport assistance for the relocation of vulnerable IDPs and the
delivery of humanitarian assistance.

For further information, please contact:

Ashraf El Nour

IOM Kenya

Tel: +254 20 4444 167

E-mail: "mailto:aelnournbo@iom.int">aelnournbo@iom.int