Crisis in the Horn of Africa
You may have seen the pictures of starving people in the Horn of Africa on your TV screens. We are all asking: how can this be happening again? Parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are facing one of the worst droughts for 60 years, and around 10 million people are desperately in need of food, clean water and basic sanitation. But something can be done. You can add your voice to help make a difference.
Despite the urgency of the situation, most world leaders are responding too slowly. Immediate aid is essential. Yet at the same time we must not let them drop the ball on long term solutions as has too often happened in the past.
Dear World Leaders,
Please urgently provide the full funding that the UN has identified as necessary to help people in the Horn of Africa, and please keep your promises to deliver the long term solutions which could prevent crises like this happening again.
Some people look back to previous droughts and question whether things will ever change. But because of the smart aid that is supporting African leadership, progress really is being made. For example, 87% of people in the world today have enough food to eat and lead healthy lives – up from just 76% in 1970. And in Ethiopia the number of people malnourished has fallen from 71% in 1992 to 46% now.
But we know how to change things even more: we can help stop starvation now – and stop the causes of starvation. Firstly, we need to make sure funding is provided to pay for urgent help that will prevent people from dying. Secondly, the promises that world leaders made to invest in long term solutions must be kept, so that the people of this region can feed themselves and will not need food aid in the future.
Thanks for helping us to pressure our governments to save millions of lives – today and tomorrow.
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19/07/2011 at 10:00 pm
Greetings ! It’s a honour for us to be part of this action of helping people In Africa. I live in Brazil and I appreciate the help that one.org has been doing for all these people. Sign the petition is a great thing that we can do! Let’s do our part! Peace and love!
20/07/2011 at 4:56 pm
all we do is mending. we do not solve the problem. long term solution can only be to provide education in order to stop population explosion, teach people to help themselves and that we change our own lives, return to modesty, which means stop wasting water and heating up the planet futher by wasting energy. how to solve the problem of any help money landing in the pockets of corrupt politicians i do not know. in many cases the food shipped to these countries is sold and weapons are bought for that money. one just has to look at the weaponry existing in these countries – where do all the weapons come from, who pays for them and so on and so forth.