east africa crisis appeal Updates

mothers line up with their enrolled children in PlumpyNut distribution
14/12/2011
Somalia: DEC member agency Merlin is tackling malnutrition with emergency health care in six health facilities and along five mobile teams reaching up to 168,000 people.
Kath Hindley (right) meeting with local women in Borena
18/11/2011
Ethiopia: DEC's Kath Hindley visits member agencies Oxfam, Merlin and Age UK partner HelpAge International in East Africa to see aid delivery to local communities.
Ayapan and her family are now reliant on relief food from CAFOD
10/11/2011
Kenya: DEC member CAFOD has been working to ensure remote communities are not forgotten as they cope with the drought by providing food relief.
Seke receives a monthly cash transfer from HelpAge which she uses for food
25/10/2011
Ethiopia: DEC member Age UK, via its sister organisation Help International, is providing food and cash to over 3,500 older people and their families.
Food distribution in Makima, Kenya
16/10/2011
East Africa: Aid is getting through in Kenya, Ethiopia and even in Somalia but reaching all those in greatest need in south central Somalia remains very challenging.
Maka and Elama
11/10/2011
Kenya: DEC member agency Tearfund is working with their local partner Christian Reformed World Relief Committee to provide water and repair broken boreholes.
A traditional deep well in the Borana reigion of Ethiopia
03/10/2011
Ethiopia: DEC member CARE International highlights the ongoing work they're doing to ensure people in the Borana region have water for livestock and the local community.
Mukhtar Osman, head teacher at Undugu Primary School in Hagadera refugee camp
22/09/2011
Kenya: A new term in Kenya and the dusty landscape around Dadaab is dotted with students making their way to a school run by LWF, partner of DEC member Christian Aid.
Bishara at 18 months old, looking much healthier and playing with her grandmothe
14/09/2011
East Africa: DEC member Save the Children is working round the clock in Wajir, Mandera, Dadaab and Somalia to treat children who are severely malnourished
Harriet Harman at Dadaab, listening to the experiences of Somali women refugees.
12/09/2011
Kenya: Shadow International Development Secretary Harriet Harman MP recently visited East Africa with DEC member Islamic Relief.

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