Chai Brady
Irish boxer Carl Frampton spoke of the heartbreaking scenes he witnessed in Kenya after travelling to the country with Church charity Trócaire.
Mr Frampton, a world champion boxer from north Belfast, travelled with his wife Christine, and said he would never forget what he had seen.
Recalling an incident he witnessed in which a toddler begged for food from a doctor he was speaking to, he said: “So, right away, we were hit in the face by the reality of the problems and how the support Trócaire brings to the community can quite literally be the difference between life and death.”
He also met young boxers in one of Africa’s largest slums, Mukuru, in Nairobi, and said the “squalor and poverty that so many are enduring is heartbreaking”.
Mr Frampton said it was “massively important” to support Trócaire’s Christmas appeal. People in east Africa are facing severe drought and crop failure after the failure of subsequent rainy seasons, many are fighting for their lives.