One blanket is given to each family comprising one or two persons. Families of three to five persons receive two blankets while any family larger than five receives three. ACT-TCRS provided hoes and machetes, as well as donated used clothing, to the earliest arrivals until stocks were depleted. They plan to resume distributing the farm implements as soon as possible to allow newcomers to begin building their homes and cultivating at least some of their own food supplies. Though in the past, livestock were trucked in with their owners, today herds must be sold off at the Tanzanian border, as the camp cannot possibly sustain them.
Water is the critical factor.
Camp residents have been forced on ration well below the recommended healthy minimum of 15 liters per person per day. All families regardless of size have been provided with identical water storage buckets. Community water taps are opened only at fixed hours to fill these containers. ACT-TCRS built a water system that could accommodate 20,000 new arrivals at Karago. The new system included a 150,000-liter water tank and distribution network.