Amal with her children Nahwo and Rinwad outside their home in Salahad. Amal lives with her six children Rinwad (8), Khalid (7), Nimo (4), Jnale (5), Nahwo (3) and Hinda (10 months) in Salehad. Photo: Conor O'Donovan/Concern WorldwideAmal with her children Nahwo and Rinwad outside their home in Salahad. Amal lives with her six children Rinwad (8), Khalid (7), Nimo (4), Jnale (5), Nahwo (3) and Hinda (10 months) in Salehad. Photo: Conor O'Donovan/Concern Worldwide

East Africa Hunger appeal

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Giving £68 could help stock a clinic with vital medicines to treat up to 10 children

Ethiopia is on the brink of famine after its worst drought in 40 years. Will you help families survive this hunger crisis?

East Africa is experiencing one of its most severe droughts in recent history. The situation is dire, with over 23 million people facing dangerous levels of hunger in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, and 7 million people in South Sudan.

It is estimated that one person is dying every 48 seconds from hunger in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia and millions more are at risk of starvation. We’re working with local communities to prevent the situation getting worse, but we need your support to reach vulnerable children and their parents with the emergency food they desperately need.

Please, will you give a gift today to help families across East Africa survive hunger?

Amal with her children Nahwo and Rinwad outside their home in Salahad. Amal lives with her six children Rinwad (8), Khalid (7), Nimo (4), Jnale (5), Nahwo (3) and Hinda (10 months) in Salehad. Photo: Conor O'Donovan/Concern Worldwide
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£16 can provide two families with a week's worth of emergency food including oil, rice, flour and beans

7.2 million people in Ethiopia, like Amal and her children, are waking up hungry every day. In some parts of the country, people are facing famine-like conditions, which is affecting women and children the worst.

Like many people living in Ethiopia, Amal’s family are reliant on the land for their livelihood. But without any sufficient rain since April 2021, herds have dwindled and crops have died. Now Amal’s family are among the millions who are struggling to feed themselves.

Amal’s reserves had dwindled to just dried food and wheat when we met her. Without being able to afford more nutritious food, her young children had become dangerously weak and undernourished. They were diagnosed with acute malnutrition at the local health centre, where thankfully they were given emergency food and vitamins to recover.

Thanks to supporters like you, we have been able to reach Amal and families in her community with emergency cash transfers. This means she can buy enough nutritious food, like vegetables, to keep her whole family healthy and prevent her children from becoming malnourished.

Amal lost her livelihood to the drought, and was struggling to keep her children healthy. Since they received an emergency cash transfer, Amal can afford more nutritious food to feed her family (pictured here Nahwo (3), Janle (4), Nimo (5) and Khalid (7)).
Amal lost her livelihood to the drought, and was struggling to keep her children healthy. Since they received an emergency cash transfer, Amal can afford more nutritious food to feed her family (pictured here Nahwo (3), Janle (4), Nimo (5) and Khalid (7)).

A gift today could fund life-saving support for families facing starvation:

Emergency food: Help us provide life-saving therapeutic food to severely malnourished children.

Cash transfers: Families who have nothing left need emergency cash transfers so they can buy the food they desperately need.

Medical support: Give our specialist teams in the 870 Health Centres we support across East Africa the vital equipment they need to treat malnutrition and help families stay healthy.

The number of people facing extreme hunger across East Africa is growing every day. There is no time to lose.

Antut Sharamo's sheep and goat by their family home in Marsabit, Kenya. Photo: Ed Ram/Concern Worldwide

Help bring life-saving treatment to acutely malnourished children

  • Millions of people are facing a hunger crisis across East Africa, including 5.7 million children.

  • Emergency therapeutic food can help a child back from the brink of severe hunger within weeks.

  • £16 can provide two families with a week's worth of emergency food including oil, rice, flour and beans.

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