IDPs

so what has happened to the political situation here you might ask? as i have been typing more about personal issues of late rather than the situation in the country.
well they are still there. the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) is pulling out of the situation and the Government claims to be trying its best to move the IDPs home. the Red Cross is not helping with this other than to give them tarpaulins and basics to take with them as it is against Red Cross principals to facilitate in taking people back to places that they have fled from.
so we want to close the camps but the people are reluctant to go. not because there is violence but because they feel that they are entitled to some monetary compensation after the violences and they know that their chances of getting this are greatly reduced to nothing at all if they return. but as it stands i cant see the government giving anything anyway as they would have done it already if there was a plan to do so and besides the bill would be so high that the already damaged economy could not handle it.
so the camps are still full, my red cross branch (nakuru) also runs the camps in Molo and Naivasha, last week one of the camps in Molo was closed but lo and behold this week we have more IDPs turning up to the showground FROM MOLO because they don't want to stop receiving food and free clinic etc. so despite the fact that the camp is dirty, they are in falling apart tents that are cramped together, there is rape and SO MANY psychologically affected people running around, they still want to stay. there is definitely a dependency syndrome here.
we have stopped with issuing the tarpaulins due to this very fact, if they are to go home then they will receive another so it would be a waste of resources to issue two. but what to do till then? (not for me as obv i have many other activities to get involved in!) but when it rains? two thirds of the camp has, the other third does not.
even as i am going around the schools with the certificates for the walk there are so many of the principals saying how can we assist them, they want free food for the IPDs in their schools. i dont know whether i am right to be, but this angers me greatly that they think that it is their right to be assisted by us- have they seen all the work that we are doing and all the people at the camps? we are supporting so many, how can they expect us to start dishing out food to children who are actually in schools and in homes? especially when this comes from schools who have raised so little for our walk and have just finished demanding we give them a t-shirt for it.
what of the rest of the country? well, last night i was watching the news and was astonished to see that in Kisi there were 35'witches' burnt alive in their homes yesterday. but what astonished me more was the reaction from my friend Le and her sister Phyllis who said - oh yes there are a lot of witches there in Kisi, you know you can't travel by day there or you will be bewitched (!) they weren't joking. my oh my.
so politically we are calm, unlike SA as we are are all seeing on the TV