Thousands of children are at risk of hunger if more funding is not secured for the year ahead.
Monday 9 January 2012
Our teams on the ground are currently keeping thousands of children alive – over 1.2 million reached so far – through emergency feeding.
But there is a grave danger that many could slip back into extreme hunger without our continued support this year.
Urgent appeal
We urgently need more money to keep up our life-saving work through 2012 to help families recover and can support themselves again.
We have raised our East Africa emergency appeal to £125m – double the amount we've so far raised.
Please donate now to our East Africa Appeal
A critical moment
"The worldwide public has already helped make our East Africa appeal the most successful in our 90 year history,” said Justin Forsyth, Save the Children CEO.
“We have reached a critical moment, over 2.5 million people have already benefited from Save the Children’s life-saving programmes in East Africa, but we desperately need more funds to build on what we’ve achieved in the last six months.
"This isn’t about expanding our operations: this is about ensuring that children we’ve already helped aren’t allowed to slip backwards into extreme hunger once again."
Helping families rebuild
Millions of people who lost their livelihoods during the drought remain dependent on the assistance of aid agencies like Save the Children.
Ongoing conflict, rising food prices and severe drought have left parents unable to provide their children with the most basic needs of food and water.
As well as our emergency lifesaving work, we're also helping families prepare for the future with agricultural tools and training, and putting early-warning systems in place to help predict future droughts.
Millions helped but we can do more
“Thanks to the generous support of our donors, millions have already been helped. But tens of thousands of children still depend on us for food every day,” said Justin Forsyth.
“2012 needs to be the year that we bring East Africa out of crisis. Without our continuing support they may not be able to survive.”