” “"There are no official refugee camps explains father Wanyoike -, people are sleeping in the parish churches or in the police stations". Through the Catholic radio station and the parish churches, he specifies, "we are making appeals to donate food, blankets and mattresses for the refugees, and money to buy medicines". A Benedictine priest, he adds, "told me he is accommodating in his parish church 200 families from kikuyu, luo and other tribes, and they urgently need food and medicines. And when they are in this state, they do not fight each other". "We are conducting a campaign to collect aids on the bishops’ behalf, coordinated by Caritas Kenya he explains -. When food, clothes and money arrive, we give everything to Caritas, which knows how to apportion them. All donations (the Red Cross, Wfp, Caritas) to the refugees are escorted by the police". Locally, he goes on, "the Christian leaders have organised campaigns to reconcile people, explaining them that the presidency and the opposition will talk to each other. Yesterday, there was one hour of ecumenical and inter-religious prayer, and a appeal to peace was broadcast by all of the Kenyan radio and TV stations". (continued)” “
