Help bring food and water to people facing the wors drought in 60 years.
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The crisis in the Horn of Africa is now impacting more than 12 million people in four countries. The worst drought in 60 years – fueled by skyrocketing food prices, conflict and limited humanitarian access – has led to the first famine in decades.
Water is scarce. Acute malnutrition is affecting hundreds of thousands of children and adults. Animals are dying at a rate 40 to 60 percent above normal in communities that depend entirely on livestock to survive.
World Concern has worked in Kenya and Somalia – two of the hardest hit places – for 30 years. We’re responding to this crisis with life saving aid – water, food, emergency supplies and more.
Increasing numbers of refugees from Somalia are crossing the border into Kenya each day. Families have left their homes and walked for weeks in search of food and water. Read one family’s story here.
Refugee camps are overflowing, with tens of thousands of people living outside the camps with no access to clean water or sanitation. World Concern is working in these communities to bring water, food, medical care and hope to these families.
The need is overwhelming. Please help us respond to this crisis today. Donate here to help save lives.
World Concern is one of the first international aid organizations to be able to work across the Kenya-Somalia border in southern Somalia – an area once inaccessible due to insecurity. We’re providing emergency food, water, medical assistance and supplies, with a goal of reaching thousands of people in strained host communities on both sides of the border.
One of the ways we’re helping immediately is by repairing and improving the performance of existing wells. Here’s how we were able to get water flowing in one village where more than 2,000 refugees have arrived.
In addition to immediate aid, we’re working to provide long-term solutions – drought resistant crops, rainwater catchment systems and new wells – to the region.
Please help us reach desperate families with life-saving water and food. Donate here.
Sources: U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and USAID.
