Dear OxfamUO members,
Over the last week, Oxfam has launched an emergency appeal or the food crisis in East Africa. Conditions are deteriorating rapidly, forcing many families to abandon their homes for refugee camps, a journey so difficult many don’t survive. We need your help to get the conversation started.
We urge you to take the initiative and be a leader by informing your networks about our collective responsibility to foster global food security.
Oxfam needs your help to deliver critical water and life-saving supplies – Donate now >>
The situation is particularly critical in Somalia, southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya. Learn more >>In some areas, more than half the livestock has perished, while remaining herds are sick or seriously underweight. But people aren’t worried about their animals anymore – there is fear for the lives of their children, their families and their neighbours.Oxfam is trucking water to villages where all other sources have dried up, digging wells and providing life-saving food and medical supplies to people in crisis. As this crisis grows, we MUST rush more supplies and staff to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.Please donate today to make it happen – your gift will save lives!
- For $50, you can provide clean water for 175 people for a day.
- For $100, you can feed a family of six for two weeks – helping them survive and giving them the strength to assist their community.
- For $175, you can dig a well that will provide drinking water for an entire village. With your gift, we can start right now – in some areas, the closest well is currently 50 miles away.
To learn more you may wish to consult the following news articles:
CTV.ca
Kristen Davis, Oxfam ambassador, interviewed on her trip to the Horn of Africa.
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/africa-crisis/#clip500243
Toronto Star
The Humanitarian Coalition of which Oxfam is a member, placed an Op-ed on thestar.com yesterday.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1024577–severe-humanitarian-crisis-grips-east-africa
Blog by Louis Belanger from Oxfam America on the nature of the food crisis.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-belanger/food-crisis-africa-_b_895157.html
