Responding to Crisis: Somalia
I’ve always been passionate about the way Giving Children Hope responds to disasters and crises worldwide. As a team with unique skill sets and experience levels, we work well together and respond as quickly and efficiently as possible to needs around the world. This is no different with the current needs in Somalia and the Horn of Africa regions.
Our partners need help and relief and assistance now. The media seems to have already forgotten these regions that need help so desperately. GCHope has not.
Ben Hansen, our friend (and former intern from Ameri-Corps), highlights the needs and situation in the Horn of Africa region in his newest guest blog post:
Drought in Africa Leads to Famine
by Ben HansenSince the beginning of July, countries within the Horn of Africa – Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and neighboring nations – continue to suffer from a severe drought and famine. According to BBC, this crisis is “the worst in 60 years.”
Widespread famine is occurring throughout the region as uninhabitable conditions wilt crops and threaten livestock. The resulting increase in food prices and heavily controlled distribution lanes by local militia make food a scarce commodity for people of the region.
As time passes, conditions worsen throughout the Horn of Africa, effecting Somalia most severely. The nation has suffered more than 29,000 deaths since July as more than 860,000 refugees from Somalia flood camps in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, causing overcrowding and unsanitary conditions.
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the United Nations officially declared a famine in several regions of Somalia due to the worsening conditions of malnutrition and a lack of adequate humanitarian response. The UN World Food Programme expects 12 million people across the Horn of Africa to need food aid – a figure revised upward from 6 million in early July.
Giving Children Hope, in partnership with Dr. Abdul-Aziz Farah and Humanitarian Endeavoring and Life Promotion, Somalia, is sending the desperately needed pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to address the associated health risks that refugees suffer from.
As a humanitarian aid organization that takes pride in the ability to send aid where it’s needed most, GCHope is responding as rapidly as possible to this crisis, sending necessary medical supplies requested by partners in the Horn of Africa region. GCHope is doing everything in its power to spearhead the humanitarian aid response in Somalia and needs help from volunteers willing to get involved.
Please consider playing a part in this relief effort by helping to fund upcoming shipments. To sponsor medicines, medical supplies, or a container, please contact Sean Lawrence .
We’re asking for your partnership in this response. Alone we can only do so much, but together we can help thousands of individuals suffering.
Responding to Crisis: Somalia
I’ve always been passionate about the way Giving Children Hope responds to disasters and crises worldwide. As a team with unique skill sets and experience levels, we work well together and respond as quickly and efficiently as possible to needs around the world. This is no different with the current needs in Somalia and the Horn of Africa regions.
Our partners need help and relief and assistance now. The media seems to have already forgotten these regions that need help so desperately. GCHope has not.
Ben Hansen, our friend (and former intern from Ameri-Corps), highlights the needs and situation in the Horn of Africa region in his newest guest blog post:
Drought in Africa Leads to Famine
by Ben HansenSince the beginning of July, countries within the Horn of Africa – Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and neighboring nations – continue to suffer from a severe drought and famine. According to BBC, this crisis is “the worst in 60 years.”
Widespread famine is occurring throughout the region as uninhabitable conditions wilt crops and threaten livestock. The resulting increase in food prices and heavily controlled distribution lanes by local militia make food a scarce commodity for people of the region.
As time passes, conditions worsen throughout the Horn of Africa, effecting Somalia most severely. The nation has suffered more than 29,000 deaths since July as more than 860,000 refugees from Somalia flood camps in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, causing overcrowding and unsanitary conditions.
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the United Nations officially declared a famine in several regions of Somalia due to the worsening conditions of malnutrition and a lack of adequate humanitarian response. The UN World Food Programme expects 12 million people across the Horn of Africa to need food aid – a figure revised upward from 6 million in early July.
Giving Children Hope, in partnership with Dr. Abdul-Aziz Farah and Humanitarian Endeavoring and Life Promotion, Somalia, is sending the desperately needed pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to address the associated health risks that refugees suffer from.
As a humanitarian aid organization that takes pride in the ability to send aid where it’s needed most, GCHope is responding as rapidly as possible to this crisis, sending necessary medical supplies requested by partners in the Horn of Africa region. GCHope is doing everything in its power to spearhead the humanitarian aid response in Somalia and needs help from volunteers willing to get involved.
Please consider playing a part in this relief effort by helping to fund upcoming shipments. To sponsor medicines, medical supplies, or a container, please contact Sean Lawrence .
We’re asking for your partnership in this response. Alone we can only do so much, but together we can help thousands of individuals suffering.
