This will double the impact of your donation.
The matched contribution will provide the provision of humanitarian assistance, including emergency food, nutritional support, water, sanitation and shelter, to those affected by the drought. Donations by individuals between July 6th and September 16th, 2011.
The Government of Canada will use the East Africa Drought Relief Fund to support:
- Emergency food assistance in East Africa through the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP)
- Targeted non-food humanitarian interventions, such as nutrition, water and sanitation, protection, coordination, logistics, and security for humanitarian workers, for drought-affected populations through partners like SOS Children's Villages
- Operational support for refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya to meet the basic needs of Somali refugees
A team from SOS Children’s Villages in Somalia have conducted an assessment of the needs of the families displaced by drought in Mogadishu. Our colleagues have reported that most of the children and elderly in the displaced camps in and around Mogadishu are malnourished, and most children have not been vaccinated against immunisable diseases.
There is the threat of a measles epidemic, as well as diarrhoea, respiratory infections, malaria and skin disorders. Some of the shelter is no more than just plastic sheeting, and some families do not even have this.
SOS Children's Villages is planning to set up a therapy and food centre for undernourished children in the SOS Clinic, as well as a mobile clinic and immunisation centre in the local camps. Medical emergencies can be treated in the SOS Clinic. Play materials are also given out to children in the camps.
SOS Children's Villages will also are planning to set up an emergency relief programme in Southern Ethiopia. In the past decades SOS Children's Villages has repeatedly provided disaster relief in Gode and other regions of Ethiopia because of recurrent droughts. Gode lies in one of the driest areas of Ethiopia.
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