Horn of Africa crisis: What you can do to help
There is an immediate need for additional funding to address the famine in Somalia and wider food crisis in the Horn. ONE is actively addressing the crisis in two ways: by raising awareness of the famine and needed response through social and traditional media, and by pressing world leaders to step up and quickly fill the $1 billion funding gap for emergency assistance. We need your help – and your voice – on both fronts.
Children play outside makeshift shelters in Mogadishu. Photo credit: Phil Moore/Concern Worldwide
We also know that many people want to make personal financial contributions to assist in the famine relief. While ONE doesn’t raise money from the public, there are a number of other organizations that are doing effective work on the ground in the Horn and who are actively soliciting donations. We have pulled together the following list of organizations so that you can learn more about them and consider making a donation.
International Organizations:
International Committee of the Red Cross: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is scaling up its emergency operation in central and southern Somalia to assist an additional 1.1 million drought- and conflict-affected people.
UNICEF: This is a child survival crisis. UNICEF is massively scaling up relief efforts to save children’s lives and protect their futures. UNICEF delivers therapeutic foods to treat children suffering from severe malnutrition; provides vaccinations to fight deadly and disabling diseases like measles and polio that threaten malnourished children; improves access to clean water and proper sanitation; supports basic education in communities and camps; and establishes measures to protect children from violence, exploitation, and abuse.
World Food Program: The World Food Program (WFP) is planning to feed 7.9 million of the most vulnerable in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia and has identified an additional 2.2 million people in need in difficult-to-access areas of southern Somalia. WFP has expanded its supplementary feeding programs in Somalia and has airlifted food supplies into Mogadishu to treat around 30,000 malnourished children under the age of 5 for one month. This humanitarian crisis is WFP’s No. 1 global priority, but more resources are urgently needed.
African NGOs:
Gift of the Givers Foundation
The largest disaster relief organization of African origin based in South Africa. Gift of the Givers has set up a feeding centre in Mogadishu that will serve meals after 6 pm to Muslim observing Ramadan during this holy time. Donations are accepted.
Kenyans for Kenya!
A campaign launched by Safaricom, Kenya Red Cross and other partners to raise funds for the victims of drought and famine in Kenya. This campaign uses multiple mediums to raise donations, from the mobile banking platform M-Pesa to retails stores throughout Kenya such as Nakumatt. The campaign can receive international donations through Western Union and bank transfers.
Kenya Red Cross
The official country organization of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Kenya. It is coordinating an almost 2-billion shilling campaign ($21 million USD) to alleviate suffering from the crisis and provide for almost 2 million beneficiaries over the next six months.
French NGOs: (for a more complete list, please check out the ONE France website)
Action against Hunger France : With over 30 years of expertise in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity, Action Against Hunger runs life-saving programs in some 40 countries benefiting 5 million people each year.
ACTED : For five years, ACTED has been mobilized to support the often remote rural and pastoral communities that struggle in times of relentless drought. From Uganda to Southern Somalia, through Kenya, its teams are operating every day to ensure access the potable water and sanitation, in order to improve the vulnerable populations’ food security, while rebuilding and developing new livelihoods.
German NGOs:
Gemeinsam für Afrika: Gemeinsam für Afrika (“United for Africa”) is a coalition consisting of 23 humanitarian and development organisations. (English version available)
Aktion Deutschland hilft: Aktion Deutschland hilft (“Action Germany helps”) is a union of 11 German relief organizations that provide rapid and effective aid in the case of large catastrophes and emergency situations abroad. (English version available)
United Kingdom NGOs:
Disasters Emergency Committee: The Disasters Emergency Committee unites the 14 leading UK aid agencies in their efforts to finance relief for people suffering major disasters in poorer countries.
U.S. NGO Partners: (for a more complete list, please check out InterAction)
American Refugee Committee: The ARC’s team in Mogadishu is working closely with local organizations to respond to the crisis. Our goal is to provide immediate lifesaving relief – including food and water and sanitation needs – to support the survival of families affected by the famine. ARC distributed food packages, bedding, utensils and soap to over 400 families. With a team of experienced staff in place, and an ongoing partnership with the Somali-American community, ARC is well positioned to coordinate rapid emergency response in affected areas of Somalia.
CARE: CARE is helping more than one million people in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. In Dadaab, CARE is the primary distributor of food, water and education. In Ethiopia, CARE supports emergency nutrition programs, livestock operations, and water and sanitation. In Somalia, CARE is rehabilitating water harvesting structures and operating cash-for-work programs. CARE has more than six decades of experience delivering emergency aid during times of crisis with a focus on the most vulnerable populations, particularly girls and women.
Catholic Relief Services: In Ethiopia, CRS is expanding its food distribution program to 1.1 million beneficiaries and is working closely with local partners to provide livelihood support, water, and sanitation. In Somalia, CRS is supporting local partners to assist highly vulnerable, displaced families with basic necessities, such as food packages, support to clinics, therapeutic feeding, and shelter. In Kenya, CRS is working both to assist newly arrived refugees with hygiene, sanitation promotion, and protection, and also to provide water, sanitation, and supplemental feeding to drought-affected Kenyan communities.
Concern Worldwide: Working in the region for over 25 years, Concern Worldwide has long-term development programs in many affected areas in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, and launched an immediate response to the drought emergency at its onset in late 2010. Concern is directly reaching over 400,000 people in the Horn of Africa region with clean water, food and interventions to treat and prevent malnutrition. For instance, in Somalia, Concern and its local partners are reaching over 100,000 people in worst-affected areas there.
International Rescue Committee: The IRC runs medical services at one of Dadaab’s three camps, providing lifesaving care for thousands of Somali refugees, including many suffering from acute malnutrition. The IRC provides a range of medical, protection & counseling services to refugee women and girls who have been sexually assaulted. In Ethiopia, the IRC is installing or expanding water-supply systems in camps that serve 82,000 Somali refugees. In central Somalia, the IRC is ensuring access to water for 32,000 people.
Islamic Relief: Islamic Relief Worldwide has provided emergency drought response in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, including three districts in Puntland, Somalia. This response has led to the successful delivery of 7 liters of water a day to 35,406 for a period of one month and the provision of essential primary healthcare services to an additional 1,322 women and children.
Mercy Corps: Mercy Corps’ teams in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are responding, by distributing food and water and expanding critical relief efforts. Mercy Corps is on the ground helping more than 900,000 people in the region survive, and we are ramping up to help even more.
Oxfam America: Oxfam America is responding to the crisis by providing life-saving water, sanitation services, food, and cash with the goal of reaching 3 million people, including 700,000 in Ethiopia, 1.3 million in Kenya, and 500,000 in Somalia.
Save the Children: Save the Children has launched a major humanitarian response in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, feeding tens of thousands of underweight children, providing life-saving medical treatment, and getting clean water to remote communities. Save is also helping communities adapt to more frequent droughts, reducing the number of children at risk in any future food crises.
World Concern: World Concern is providing emergency food, water and supplies to approximately 10,000 of the most vulnerable and underserved people affected by the famine in a cross-border response in Kenya and southern Somalia.
World Vision: World Vision is distributing emergency food, water and health care and meeting other urgent needs for children and families.
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05/08/2011 at 5:05 pm
Joined the conference call on the crisis in the horn of Africa. Please sign the petition to ask the world leaders to help this at risk population.
05/08/2011 at 10:38 pm
If one can do it, we all can! Imagine what we can achieve if we can all pull together!!
06/08/2011 at 1:51 am
Shalom my family and friends, please receive this email and message you are about to read with the LOVE and KINDNESS it was send with!!! Inspired by the Holy, MOST Respected and Respectful Gift from GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT!! Given to us as a Guidance on our Journey to eternal Life and eternal LOVE, we all seek for and most desire above all, I do hope!! This GIFT was given to us after the ascension of JESUS into Heaven to sit at the right Hand of GOD ALMIGHTY, Creator and Ruler of Heaven and Earth to still pardon for our sins on our behalf and to keep the promises given by GOD HIMSELF, through HIS Angels, SON and Messengers and Servants from Adam all through the generations to today and are still appllicable from now to forever!!
This is a long letter but I hope you will find the time to read it this letter/message was written with only Goodwill and LOVE in mind and intended to glorify the NAME of our LORD and SAVIOUR!
I HOPE this Message, Email, Letter will reach all the beautiful people, all the patient, kind and loving and trusting people of the MOST HIGH, and the keepers of HIS commandments, HIS children and the Apples of HIS EYES, as was the intented purpose of this important and beautiful message I want to share with you all. Only because I love my neighbour as I love myself, and I just call myself my own best friend. And, because JESUS resides in my heart I can SHOUT out I’m so priviledged and so blessed to be one of HIS servants.
I can even shake the hands of Goliath, as big as I think King Kong size in modern days, I’m so blessed I wouldnt even flicker an eyelid. I believe and I know I have the power to convince others and the most important talent and gift from GOD is Love and Amen I know what LOVE is!!!
I want to share it with you I want to share with you the Real Secret, from a very Trusted Reliable SOURCE. I know the ANSWER and if only you would believe and receive you will also find the Answer and it is not so far and not so invisible as everyone my think. Miracles still happen till to today, we can all see it around us!! So what is the big problem then, go for it, choose Life now!!! You all know the Answer just grasp it and hold onto that thought for dear life!!
It is unbelievable that one part of the continent is getting fat and gaining weight the earth is almost tilting in that direction, yet the poor little good souls, here in darkest deepest, poor Africa have to scrounge around for food and shelter. How disgusting and so shameful, it is a disgrace and abomination. We are still slaves to the world, what a terrible terrible sin!! Unfortunately the poor slaves, the helpless, brainless people have to suffer for nothing, just to make the fat even fatter!! We are still slaves to the Pinky and the Brains trying to control this world!! We were all created according to the Image of GOD, we are different because we live in different parts of this earth, but we all still have ONE CREATOR, YHWH!! HE is still in control not some people that think they are laadi daa and think they fart lavender and wee wee perfume, how utterly shamefully embarrassing and boastfully ludicrous. World governments have been the cause of earth’s history’s downfall and still is and will be till JESUS comes to fetch HIS children. The wheel is turning and history is just repeating itself, we can all see that!! How much more do we all want to suffer, I dont think we can handle anymore punishment and i dont think the earth can bare much more abuse. So please why dont we all unite against satan and his evil angels and unite our HEARTS, MINDS and SOULS to our ALMIGHTY CREATOR and FATHER in HEAVEN!! Choose LOVE and not MONEY, choose Heavenly riches and not earthly rubbish, believe, believe and do not waste time do it now, now!!
GOD our FATHER and CREATOR loves us unconditionally and HE is sending an open invitation to everyone and all if only you would believe and will accept HIS Gift of Redemption in the form of JESUS, CHRIST our SAVIOUR and LORD!!
Who is going to blow up in the end, who do you think??. Can only be the fat cats and fat fairies controlling the world economy (now in so called economic crisis), they are just getting fatter and fatter, ready to explode in their own greed and filty thoughts. Stand back, we dont wanne be close when that kakkaas hit the fan! Even though it guarentees to be the event of the year, funny though it seem but should be a pretty ugly site, yuck!!
Did the whole world forget Whom created us, is everyone so consumed and flattered by themselves that they think they did it all by themselves, whew, shew brilliant minds or brilliant grey matter!!
You mean to say that we are so insignificant that we evolved from one cell organisms , huh?? Well I say everyone has their believes and are entitled to it, eeveryone believes what they are entitled to believe. Can I tell you, if you permit, what I believe, I believe that Jesus Christ our Saviour was born to tell us the truth and to preach and teach us what the Bible says about GOD, our FATHER and to teach us with Love the LOVE of GOD, ALmighty, JEHOVA! Our FATHER in Heaven. HE was the most perfect, beautiful, everything wonderful you can think of or imagine and HE was born, in a stable, amongst the animals of His FATHER’s creation, a lowly peasantly way.
All ordained and prophesied and executed through GOD’s command only, AMEN! We all believe in JESUS, don’t we? We all celebrate His birthday on the 25th of December. Who decided that day??? No where is it mentioned in the Bible and Jesus was born in the summer and not winter, nobody knows the exact day of the year but we know the year. JESUS was such a humble, loving, obedient Son of GOD that He did not even celebrate His birthday, everyday was His birthday. When do we all spend our most money over he christmas period and why? To make our already rottenly spoilt kids, undoctrenated by TV and constant ads and infomercials one gets bombarded with, drilling the cheap common crap into our minds, just so that they can make a quick buck and make us perfectly miserable until next pay day!! Our beautifully created minds become death traps to society and the way of social life that we forget who we are and most importantly we forget WHOM created us litttle human beings?
The most beauitiful perfect man whom ever walked this earth, was sentenced to be hanged by the cross all because of the Fariseers. The believers in human laws and church ordained human doctrines, they where following so called protocol according to their deviously written so called sacred holy book, they did not once, truly believe in GOD, hence all for a purpose and in the end this big event glorified Jesus and above all HIS FATHER, our FATHER in HEaven! All the sad betrayal the sorrowful tears of Jesus’ family and friends, diciples and loved ones and infront of the Angels in Heaven. GOD, had to turn HIS FACE away as well, because HE couldnt bare the sight of JESUS’ suffering. Could not bare the evil sins of this world thru the innocent eyes of HIS only Begotten SON! You know what GOD still it for us so that we might one day, if we believe, have eternal pleasure and life with HIM in Paradise.
For our sake, innocent blood was spilled, we were bought at a very High Price just to gain our lives. Jesus said that if you loose your life for HIM you will gain eternal life and enjoy endlesss rewards in Heaven. Those people who try to save their own lives and loose their soul in the scheme of things and happenings on earth, will never taste the Glory of Heaven and experience eternal life, eternal happiness, eternal love, eternal joy and eternal FREEDOM!!
GOD is very merciful, ever merciful and patient. HIS love is unconditional, HE send HIS only begotten SON to die for our sins!
So I believe!! If you believe that only thru Jesus Christ our Saviour and Advocate before GOD will you be saved! You will be saved!! If you believe you can be saved by some mere little man, (by the way also a creation of GOD), by paying them a fee for his blessing and forgiveness of sins. A mere little man whom listens to satan and thinks he is going to gain the world when in actual fact he is going to loose so so much and much more.
Oh what anguish, will they experience the very wolves trying to control the flock of GOD, HIS sheep, by oppressing them and making them suffer. Make them suffer just to control them and in the mean while making them believe that our Loving GOD causes all the suffering. They only wanna look good infront and for the sake of the masses, the people, the high rollers paying the big money.
The money, the bribes, the blood money, not even worth the paper it is printed on, money, filthy dirty useless money gets more protection than an innocent beautiful soul that could not speak or defend themselves or their families. The love of money and the love of self and the love of this world has caused many a good king, prince, gladiator, emperor, famous well know idol, statute called people to fall and to sell their souls for the riches of this world and for nothing.
Just to gain the riches of the earth, instead of gathering their riches in Heaven; where it will never be stolen and will never decay or wither away. We all know that earth is giving its final and last exhale, according to the learnered and most intellegant human being of that time as that why they are plannig the big excodus to the moon and space, the final frontier, to boldly go where no one has gone before!.
Why so far, just because you can? Why, the other planets are beautiful yet unliveable, do you wanna go make it liveable and then because we there we will make it unliveable faster than anyone can say supercallifragioulistickexpeallydocious.
How ironic, we totally destroyed GOD’s beautiful Home, HE created for us to go and live on a dead none functional red planet? So that we can created our own world, oh how dissastorous, pls don’t keep my seat on the next flight out of here!!
Boys and their toys, with ego’s bigger than their brains, thinking they are the Einsteins of modern civilisation, meanwhile they are the fathers of distraction, all because they thought they were the best, better than all the rest!! Worst, better than our CREATOR, no wonder our beautiful planet as we know it is going down the drain, all for nothing!!
These powers to “be”, who thinks themselves holier than thou. They want us all to believe that they can take away all our cares and sins. Meanwhile they are working for the dark side of the force and painting themselves white and wearing the right costumes makes them untouchable and unreachable and oh so praise worthy. They so much adore and love the world idolising them, mere puney little man. These almighty powers of this earth think they grow bigger by people worshipping them and giving them power and money. They are ready to explode owith their gloating and why, only because GOD sees and knows everything, so WHO do they think they are fooling!!
Please believe, you and your family’s lives are much more valuable and worth way more than any priced paid on earth by any unworthly man. Believe, JESUS paid our price long ago and we just need to accept and believe it beyond a shadow of a doubt. We are all worth way more than any dirty printed, piece of paper with some laaadiii daa’s head as the emblem, and we are more worth more than any treasure on earth. We are not man made, we are the Creation of GOD in HIS image we are all special and beautfiully created. Receive the LOVE back into your hearts and the Light of that LOVE will make the darkness disappear.
The darkness is only as dark is you believe the strenth of your light. Jesaja 60 and Revelations and throught out the Bible the prophets and kings were warned about the danger of what will happen because of their transgressions, time and time again did GOD warn them, but as Elisha also experienced their is an end to Friendliness as well, do you want your Smile to go away forever, do you want Happiness, Love and Laughter to leave your homes forever, as well?All the prophets and servants of GOD were sent to warn tje people before the time on numerous occasions as well, and if they still did not want to turn from their evil ways, only then and after a long long time does the wrath of GOD come down on them and only always when it is too late, it is never to late it is never too late to say YES, Yes Yes for GOD and say begone, begone and no, no, no to satan and his evil thoughts and manipulations.
Remember the road to destruction is so easy to find and so wide and a super highway and by way for all. Please we don’t want to miss the small, beautiful, secret passage that leads to GOD and everlasting, forever, ever, life and more!! So say no to this world now and say Yes yes yes to JESUS and Glorify HIS Name and Praise HIM, WHO made Heaven and Earth and all and everything around. Amen!!
Your light is coming and it will shine, for all and they will be drawn to it like moths to a candle, everyone from wide and far will come to see and to worship the True and Only Light and from being the disgravceful ugly duckling and outcast everyone will see the change and transformation and will not believe their eyes. Some will be happy and oh so so relieved and others will run and try to hide from the Light.
Do you know where to switch your LIGHT ON, if you do, please tell a friend and anyne you can, we CAN all be saved EVEN the lowliest, scummiest, evilest, villian ever CAN BE SAVED and WILL be saved, ONLY if we believe. GOD truly LOVES us all, and that is a fact!!! HE is our FATHER and CREATOR. Jesus cleansed us from our sins by dying on the cross, and spilling HIS innocent BLOOD, all for us!!
Have front row seat to the best ever performance and see and experience the gathering of the saints and the patience of those whom wait on their Prince, Redeemer, Saviour and LORD of this universe. The ones who believe in the Bible and the Kings, Prophets, Ministers, Priests, HOLIEST of Israel and the Second Coming of our Dear JESUS. Only the patient trusting enwavering faithful ones will be prepared and ready, in waiting, to be invted to the biggest most spectacuar, most wonderful, most exciting wedding of a life time. The ones that will be honoured guests and will have a placard at their designated spot. Their names written on the guest list , the Book of Life and the honeymoon is non-stop and to be enjoyed forever! Forever happiness, LOVE and endless laughter and PEACE all Good things non stop, never ending pleasure, uncontrollable laughter and inner hapiness and peace beyond compare!
So why do we, let ourselves be controlled by the rulers of this earth, instead we can become the children of the only One and TRUE GOD and inherit the earth and more. Don’t be fooled by good looks, charm and empty promises from insignificant mind controllers and so called do-gooders. They only pretend to help just to redeem themselves from their own evil doings,and evil thoughts. They implicate innocent poor souls to burn for their own evil sins? The wheel is still turning and history is still repeating itself only now it is urgent more urgent than ever to turn from our evil ways and to follow JESUS and rely only on HIM as our SOURCE for everything we need to survive this onslaught and to come out victors of course.
Who would you believe to save your soul, JESUS, or some little man driving around in a pope mobile, hehehe how funny, like Obelix would say these Romans are crazy, I agree with him 100%!
They sit hidden behind a veil in a dark box and they listen to all the secrets of everyone and records everything useful for their evil purposes or for their bargaining tool as a judgement against an innocent unsuspecting soul. Who thinks he is the “Vicar of God” on earth, wow how blasphemous, shew I would bow my head in shame if I was him. Who do you give your money, your life your soul to?? They corner you into thinking that the only way to redemption is to pay them handsomely to forgive your sins, they cant even if they stand upside down and try to do the macarena on a elvis song. Let alone try and play god on earth to try and forgive our sins, no wonder its not working and will never work. Who changed the Law of GOD and who changed time, time itself who stole our time and is still stealing our time. It is our time and GOD’s time, we should not be slaves to this world but we should be at all costs slaves to JESUS. Wipe the culprit and the one that should be avoided and ignored at all times of his throne and out of your memory and be prepared to experience True Love and Happiness!!
Who do you think they serve? GOD or satan, please draw your own winning conclusion. Remember, the biggest liar and master of deceit is like a hungry wolf prowling this earth on the look out for innocent insuspecting prey, rather be prepared and vigilant and have the right kind of protection on your side. Be prepared, attire yourself with the Armour of GOD and you will be safe against the eveil dark powers controlling this earth. Satan is the mother of all lies and the father of destruction and ruin. Don’t listen to him anymore, turn today to JESUS and say yes to GOD! Embrace life and LOVE!!
I want you all to be as happy as I am, please tell everyone the good news!!
Lots of Love, Jana (child, servant and sinful begger and believer in GOD, Almighty and JESUS our Saviour!! Amen!!