World Vision is on the ground, helping those most affected by the crisis. Your donations to the East Africa Hunger Crisis will enable us to support the health, nutrition, child protection, livelihoods, shelter, education and water and sanitation needs of the most vulnerable children and families. Our response to the crisis varies in each country to meet specific needs:
South Sudan - Screening and treating children for malnutrition
- Distributing emergency food
- Educating pregnant and breastfeeding women
- Enrolling children in education in internally displaced people camps
- Creating Child Friendly Spaces
- Trucking drinking water into displaced persons camps
Kenya - Screening and treating children for malnutrition
- Drilling and rehabilitating boreholes and supplying water tanks to schools
- Distributing water purification tablets
- Starting cash for work programmes
- Creating Child Friendly Spaces
- Enrolling displaced children in local schools
Ethiopia - Training health workers in how to manage severe acute malnutrition
- Distributing emergency food
- Providing medical supplies to health clinics
- Distributing seeds to plants for harvests
- Providing school support for displaced children
- Screening and treating children for malnutrition
Somalia - Supporting health clinics with supplies and personnel
- Trucking drinking water into displaced persons camps
- Distributing emergency food
- Screening and treating children for malnutrition
- Distributing non-food essential items.