East Africa Hunger Crisis FAQs

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 across all countries affected by the crisis – South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.  

World Vision is committed to ensuring the highest proportion of the money you donate gets to those in need. Last year 80.4 percent of the money received by World Vision New Zealand funded our development work overseas.

In response to the growing crisis in East Africa, the New Zealand Government has partnered with World Vision to provide essential aid in South Sudan.
 
The partnership between World Vision and the New Zealand Government will provide food security and increased water and sanitation for nearly 20,000 internally displaced people and host community members in two UN Protection of Civilians sites in Melut, Upper Nile.
 
The project will provide 1,000 households with vegetable kits, 20 farmers groups with water pumps for vegetable production, and train 1,000 people in improved agricultural practises and post-harvest management. World Vision will train 60 people in nursery establishment (tree nurseries) and management including the distribution of 2,000 tree seedlings. Two new water points will be constructed and 100 shared household latrines will be built. The project will reach 14,000 people with hygiene promotion messaging, training hygiene promoters, and setting up school hygiene clubs.

This project will help the community respond to the current food crisis, and build long-term resilience through enhanced farming capabilities.

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. 

The cause of the East Africa hunger crisis is a complex combination of long term conflict, drought, and poor governance, and it has left over 24 million people across East Africa in urgent need of life saving assistance. 

The hunger crisis is forcing people to migrate into areas affected by conflict and putting children at huge risk of violence, exploitation and abuse. There are more than 6 million displaced and increasing fragility in the region, exacerbating the need to assist in multiple areas and contexts.