East Africa Appeal
Almost a year since the crisis in East Africa began, we've saved hundreds of thousands of children's lives - thanks to your incredible generosity. But there's a real danger of a another hunger crisis wiping away the gains made since last year.
Rains and crops have failed again threatening to plunge millions into starvation once more. Our teams are on the ground ready to react but we need still need your help if they're continue to save children's lives.
Please help ensure the children we've already helped don't slip backwards into starvation again.
Read about the prospect of another hunger crisis erupting in east Africa.
Your donations literally save lives. Lives like Umi.
When our teams met her in July she was three months old and suffering from diarrhoea and malnutrition. In a photograph taken that day we can see Umi’s fragile human features threatening to give way as her withered skin shrunk around her tiny bones.
Three months later, Umi is no longer an iconic image of hunger and drought; she is now a healthy, plump, and smiling six-month-old baby girl thanks to the life-saving treatment and food your donations paid for.
Umi survived, but thousands like her are still in desperate need.
Please donate to our East Africa Appeal
We welcome all types of donations including Zakat.
- Our response
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Find out what we're doing on the ground in East Africa to save children's lives right now.
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- Why is this happening?
- Find out why the failure of rains has led to desperation and hunger for millions in East Africa.
- The longer term
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How we're working in East Africa to prevent emergencies like this happening in the future.
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- Death and desperation in Daadab
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Our chief executive on what he witnessed on a visit to the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya.