‘The time to act is now’
More than 36 million people have been affected by the worst droughts East Africa has seen in forty years. Of those, 22 million do not have enough food to survive. Local conflict, combined with skyrocketing food prices, is making the situation even worse.
Lives have been lost and many more are at risk. Children are especially vulnerable.
‘All we know is hunger,’ Akina* aged 12 from Uganda, tells us. ‘When we sleep, our stomachs are growling because we have not eaten for days.’
Tearfund and our local church partners are on the ground now in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to tackle the crisis.
Here is some of the life-saving work you’ll be supporting:
- Providing emergency food relief and cash grants to communities suffering from hunger.
- Building wells and solar-powered water pumps in drought-affected areas.
- Supporting people through self-help groups. In these groups, people are able to acquire land for tree planting and farming, access affordable loans, and build fuel-saving stoves.
- Supporting communities to understand climate change and adapt to its negative effects by investing in drought-resistant crops and finding new and sustainable forms of income.
- Training farmers with new techniques so that they can adapt to the changing weather patterns.
Resources are stretched like never before, and the crisis is growing every day.
Your support can make a crucial difference.