East Africa Emergency

 

MILLIONS IN NEED!

The effects of this climate system started in December 2015, and now, in 2017, things have gotten exponentially worse. Millions of people are in need of humanitarian assistance: Food insecurity is growing; entire harvests have been wiped out, and more are at-risk of drying out. Bad conditions and no nutrition mean water-borne diseases can spread more easily—the need for easy-to-access clean water is more urgent than ever.


More than 15 million people are in need of aid in what the United Nations are calling "the largest humanitarian crisis since 1945"
 
Islamic Relief teams are already on the ground in East Africa providing aid and relief but we many more still need your help.
 
Here is what is happening in the most devastated communities in Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Kenya. 
 
Somalia:
 
●      Roughly 363,000 acutely malnourished children are in need of urgent nutritional support, with 71,000 classed as severely malnourished. 
●      3.3 million people lack basic access to health, water and sanitation. 
 
Sudan:
●      Drought in South Sudan has left 100,000 people on the verge of starvation and more than 5 million people, more than 40% of the country's population, are in need of urgent help. 
●      "Our worst fears have been realized," said Serge Tissot, of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. "Many families have exhausted every means they have to survive." (CNN) 
 

Kenya:
●      23 out of 47 counties in Kenya have been affected by the drought and the situation is rapidly deteriorating. 
●      According to the Kenyan government, 1.3 million people are affected by the drought and are in need of urgent and immediate humanitarian assistance. The government projects that the number will increase to 2.4 million by April 2017. 
 
Ethiopia:
●      At least 5.6 million people require emergency food assistance this year. 
●      “Ethiopia is currently contending with one of the most serious climatic shocks in recorded history with 10 million people facing lost harvests and livestock as well as severe water shortages and health risks.” - Ahunna Eziakonwa-Onuchie, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia 
We need YOUR help! Donate to Islamic Relief USA and provide food and relief for millions who are in dire need.