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In Kenya, a search for links between a changing climate and mental health
The Associated Press ^ | October 10, 2025 | BY DESMOND TIRO AND INAARA GANGJI

Posted on 10/10/2025 6:37:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

KILIFI, Kenya (AP) — The daily grind of putting food on the table is stressful for people the world over, especially for women, who still provide the bulk of that work. A changing climate adds to the anxiety.

Kaloleni in Kilifi County is one of Kenya ’s poorest areas. Women carry buckets of water for miles through the dusty landscape. Homes are mostly built of mud and have no indoor plumbing. Maize plants wither in the heat.

“These communities are struggling to grow their crops and have to spend money on food,” said Zul Merali from The Aga Khan University, who has set up a local institute for mental and brain health. “This creates a lot of pressure, particularly on women, because they are in charge of making sure that kids and families are fed.”

Mercy Githara is the mental health and psychosocial manager at the Kenya Red Cross. In her experience, the mental fallout from droughts or floods is very real.

“There is a lot of psychological distress among these communities, and some of them have developed mental health conditions such as depression,” she said.

She wants to see a greater emphasis on mental health. “Ensure that communities that are facing climate change can be able to access mental health services,” she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism

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1 posted on 10/10/2025 6:37:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All their insanity about the fake climate crisis is causing the mental health troubles ,LOL


2 posted on 10/10/2025 6:46:29 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; RitaOK; AFB-XYZ

“stressful for people the world over, especially for women, who still provide the bulk of that work”

More 3rd-world, “girl-boss” problems.
Maybe the women should get together, organize a fem-central kibbutz, throw out all the men and divvy-up responsibilities.
Things should get better.
Until it comes time to kill, gut, and butcher a Cape Buffalo for the Sunday roast.


3 posted on 10/10/2025 6:47:46 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sam Kinnison had the solution to world hunger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K44DriPrLUk


4 posted on 10/10/2025 6:49:33 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Worrying about the climate non stop by lefties probably does effect their health.


5 posted on 10/10/2025 6:51:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...facing climate change...

Idiots! It's during the cooling periods that Kenya faced the worst climate change, including Swahili slave raiders capturing blacks from modern-day Kenya and selling them on the Indian Ocean Slave Trade (to Asia). Everyone should be glad we live in the Modern Warm Period.


6 posted on 10/10/2025 6:52:09 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh good Lord! Who made this crap up?


7 posted on 10/10/2025 6:53:13 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: butlerweave

All their insanity about the fake climate crisis is causing the mental health troubles ,LOL
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And some of the mental cases are doing arson, attempting to convince people that the planet is burning up.


8 posted on 10/10/2025 6:55:39 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Socon-Econ

Kenya has bigger problems than supposed climate change, like no food or shelter much less electricity and running water.


9 posted on 10/10/2025 7:01:56 AM PDT by brookwood (If you don't support abortion rights for trans women you are a Nazi. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The growing season ‘climate’ in Florida is warmer and longer than the ‘climate’ in North Carolina. So we grow different crops.

In the US we think of the differences as ‘weather’...


10 posted on 10/10/2025 7:03:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (Criminals are an important part of democrat strategy. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: brookwood

This crap is an excuse for a dysfunctional culture.


11 posted on 10/10/2025 7:04:33 AM PDT by GOPJ (Criminals are an important part of democrat strategy. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, of course!
Anyone who believes in climate change is crazy.


12 posted on 10/10/2025 7:05:30 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

in other words, gimme-mo-money.


13 posted on 10/10/2025 7:06:35 AM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: butlerweave

The lying leftist propagandists at AP outdid themselves with this one


14 posted on 10/10/2025 7:15:58 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate Change is the latest excuse to justify mass 3rd world migration into Europe, US, Australia, Canada and any other Western country.

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15 posted on 10/10/2025 7:16:24 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“She wants to see a greater emphasis on mental health.” I’d bet those people want something to eat and clean water to drink.


16 posted on 10/10/2025 7:29:02 AM PDT by kawhill ("I'm going to miss your stories, Robert. You have your own ones now.")
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To: butlerweave

OBAMA IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THEIR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, IMO


17 posted on 10/10/2025 7:29:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: brookwood

AND THEY KEEP REPRODUCING


18 posted on 10/10/2025 7:32:44 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is definitely a link. The liberals went crazy and then invented the global climate change emergency.


19 posted on 10/10/2025 7:54:06 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There would be a lot more money in the budget for improving the lives of Kenya’s poorest citizens if so much of what is available or obtained from foreign nations was not being used to fight Islam terrorists.

Per one article I glanced at Kenya’s national security budget is about 2.2 Billion dollars.


20 posted on 10/10/2025 8:03:33 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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