by ACT Alliance
East Africa Appeal
CWS — June 12, 2022
CWS is appealing for people facing famine in East Africa. ACT Alliance is distributing emergency cash, food, fast growing seeds, animal feed, water and sanitation and other assistance.
Your donation will help families survive. Please keep families throughout the world facing hunger in your prayers.
Families in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya are in urgent need of food and water after the failure of three and sometimes four rainy seasons. The drought is compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic, conflict, desert locusts, and now a further surge in food and commodity prices due to the conflict in Ukraine. As many as 17 million people are going hungry.
“The cost of a typical food basket has risen by 66 percent in Ethiopia and 36 percent in Somalia. In the worst-affected parts of Kenya, the emergency sale of livestock means prices are at their lowest since 2011. In all three countries, women are bearing the brunt of the crisis – they are the last to eat in each household, and the first to be displaced.” Obi Anyadike, The New Humanitarian.
By Christian World Service
