East Africa Drought Update: Thank You

World Accord deeply thanks the many friends and supporters who responded to our East Africa emergency appeal. Thanks to your solidarity we raised $3,581.50. This money is helping the effort to provide essential food and emergency supplies to families in Southern Ethiopia and Somalia affected by the crisis.

In Ethiopia, our partner Hope International Development Agency, is working to feed severely acutely malnourished children in Gewada district. Hope is working to provide 15,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic food to help them survive for the next several months. These activities are going as planned. With the help of other funders, Hope is also providing food rations and mosquito nets to 1,350 vulnerable families.

In Somalia, Hope and its local partners are providing rations of dry rations to families in a refugee camp in Hodan District, at the outskirts of Mogadishu. Until this work began, the 670 families living in “Camp K” had been receiving little help, leaving most adults to walk to other camps to seek cooked food for their children. Families are now receiving supplies of rice, maize, flour, sugar and oil.

World Accord partnered with Hope International Development Agency to respond to the worst drought in East Africa in 50 years. Hope International has decades of experience working in the region, and a strong knowledge of local communities and conditions. All of the donations received by World Accord were matched by the Canadian Government through its East Africa Drought Relief Fund. At the time of this posting, Canadians had donated a total of $70 million to help the the 13 million people in East Africa severely affected by drought and conflict.