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Susan* and her daughter Hawi* visit the Kayole Soweto health centre to measure her weight and height to asses for malnutrition. Photo: Shaloam Strooper/Concern WorldwideSusan* and her daughter Hawi* visit the Kayole Soweto health centre to measure her weight and height to asses for malnutrition. Photo: Shaloam Strooper/Concern Worldwide

You can help save children like Hawi*

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£48 could go towards providing a food pack for a family to help them survive for a month.

In the heart of Nairobi, children are facing a deadly hunger crisis. 

In communities like Kayole, 1 in 5 children is suffering from malnutrition - and the crisis is growing. Rising food prices. Worsening poverty. Cuts to international aid. 

These pressures are pushing families to the brink — and its children who suffer most. 

Susan is one of many mothers trying to feed her children in these unforgiving conditions.  Her daughter Hawi* was just 11 months old when Susan, carried her into to reach a clinic supported by Concern. She was desperately ill. Hawi lay limp on her mother’s shoulder - dangerously underweight and too weak to lift her head. 

Hawi was severely malnourished. 

Thankfully, we were able to give Hawi emergency therapeutic food - packed with the nutrients and calories she needed to survive. Slowly, she began to recover.  

I always sympathised with mothers whose children ended up on the programme, but I never thought it would be my baby.

Susan - Mother of Hawi* (11 months)
Hawi’s upper arm is measured by a MUAC band, (Mid-Upper Arm Circumference), which helps identify malnutrition.
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Thank you for helping mothers like Susan* (28) so her children can get the emergency food they need to get better.
Thank you for helping mothers like Susan* (28) so her children can get the emergency food they need to get better. Photo: Shaloam Strooper//Concern Worldwide

But not every child gets help in time. 

Malnutrition is entirely preventable, but it’s increasingly hard to avoid. And that’s why we really need your support today. 

Too many tiny children like Hawi cling to their mothers, weak, frightened and ill. Our community teams work around the clock to save the lives of children suffering with deadly hunger.  

But with so many more children going hungry we cannot reach them without the support of people like you.  

Please, if you are able, help provide the emergency therapeutic food urgently needed by children like Hawi. 

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Thank you for your kindness and compassion. 

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81.9%
Overseas programmes

Almost 82 pence in every pound donated goes towards our emergency response and long-term development programmes, working together with people living in the most difficult situations to bring about lasting change to lives, livelihoods and communities.

Asma Begum (37) and her husband Abdul with their three daughters Lamia (18), Sadia (16) and Maria (5) and their grandmother Kulsum Begum (72) started CRAAIN in 2020. Asma Begum started as a lead farmer, received training and seeds. Before, she did agri activities but wasn’t very successful. She had received one ring composter from the local gov but no training on how to use it. As a lead farmer, she has supported 400 households in this area. She used to rely on her husband but is now totally reliable.

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  • 3.5%

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*Names have been changed to protect the identity of individuals.  

Funds raised in response to this appeal will go towards supporting Concern’s programmes helping communities in extreme poverty around the world.    

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