When the essential needs for shelter, food, water, and medical care go unmet, we are compelled to do what we can to help our forcibly displaced friends. We refer to these kinds of needs as on the Red Line - the line on which life hangs in the balance if these needs go unmet for too long.

On a recent visit to Kakuma, Kenya, I was encouraged to see how a couple of our Red Line projects were changing people's lives for the better.

Shelter for Internally Displaced People (IDP)

The children, women, and men living in Turkana West IDP Camp live on the edge. When I first walked into the IDP camp ten years ago, the people were lacking durable shelter and a local supply of clean water. They had been given land, but no way to survive on it. They were not on the radar of the local government or humanitarian agencies serving people in the nearby refugee camp.

It was a group of refugee pastors that first asked us to help the IDP.

We have since built over 152 shelters for the people there - including seven shelters built this year.

I had the privilege of meeting several of the recipients while visiting Kakuma in October. Veronica, a mother of five, was among them. I hope you'll take the next two minutes to hear her express her heartfelt joy and thanks for the shelter her family received this year.

Meet Veronica (video)

You can help provide shelter for our Internally Displaced Friends in Kakuma, Kenya. There is a need for just 23 more shelters in the IDP camp.

IAFR can build a shelter for another IDP family for just $1,000.

I invite you to step out onto the Red Line and partner with us to sponsor a refugee shelter. Perhaps invite your church, small group, or Sunday School Class to join with you.

Even if you are not able to contribute at this time, please pray that God will meet this need.

If you have the means to help, consider partnering with us by making a contribution today. It's easy. Click here to donate now.

Or click here to learn more about our Shelter for Refugees project.