Care

Bipartisan Delegation of Six Congress Members Visit Kenya with CARE Learning Tours and Save the Children Action Network to Learn About the Global Hunger Crisis

Sites visited included Kakuma Refugee Camp, Riokomor and Kangalita villages in Turkana County, a Farmer Field and Business School in Naivasha, and a Feed the Future site in Nairobi. The delegation was able to hear both directly from community members as well as implementors including Plan International, Population Aid Services, Zamzam Foundation, Somalia NGO Consortium, Nagaad Network, World Food Programme, Lutheran World Relief, World Vision, International Rescue Committee, CARE Kenya, Save the Children Kenya, Action Against Hunger, USAID Nawiri, African Women’s Agricultural Network, Red Cross Kenya, Mery Corps, Concern Worldwide, and USAID’s Feed the Future.

The Monitor

Kikuube leaders decry worrying state of water and sanitation

Meanwhile, Ms Mariam Akiror, the Advocacy and Strategic Partnership Coordinator at Action Against Hunger USA-Uganda Mission revealed that under the Right to Grow Project, they are implementing in the area with funding from Dutch Government, they are focusing on improving Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) and Nutrition security.

All Africa

Ethiopia: Measles Outbreak Kills Eighteen in Oromia, Exacerbates Health Crisis Reeling From Cholera Outbreak, Drought, Flooding

It was indicated that Zonal Health Office in West Wollega managed to immunize 47,000 children under the age of five against measles in Kondala and Begi Woredas for four consecutive days on April 10 with the help of health cluster partners like Action Against Hunger, World Vision, the Red Cross, and Project Hope, reaching 98 percent of the target population. Additionally, the kids were given vitamin A supplements.

Paudal

In the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, climate change is already killing people

The last episodes of heat wave in France have been a realization for many that our country will not be spared by climate change. However, it is beyond our borders that the climate crisis is already having the most dramatic consequences. Among its most tangible impacts is hunger, which kills thousands of people every week.

Devex

How we got here: The origins of the global food and nutrition crisis

It’s expected that in 2023, 345.2 million people are projected to be food insecure. At the same time, projects to remedy this are only receiving less than half the money they need, according to the Action Against Hunger 2023 Hunger Funding Gap Report. Guluma said IFRC is “struggling to respond, like everyone else, to save lives.”
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