Samaritan’s Purse is providing food and other aid for thousands of vulnerable families affected by drought and hunger. The worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years has created a critical food shortage that is putting the lives of 11 million people at risk. The United Nations has described the crisis as "the world's worst humanitarian disaster."
Crop failure, drought, and depleted livestock have led to famine-like conditions in a region straddling Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled to makeshift camps in northeast Kenya looking for emergency aid. Many are refugees from neighboring Somalia, who left their country in hopes of finding help over the border.
The camps are overcrowded, and resources are stretched beyond capacity.
Conditions aren’t much better outside the camps. Samaritan’s Purse church partners are finding households facing dire shortages of basic food and water. The needs are overwhelming.
Some of the worst hit counties include Wajir and Garissa, areas considered the focal point of the Somalia refugee influx. In these regions, particularly where Samaritan’s Purse partners are involved, there is limited government assistance and little help from other agencies.
Samaritan’s Purse is responding to the crisis by working through our regional office in Kenya and our church partners, feeding 2,100 vulnerable families in Wajir and Garissa counties, providing a supplemental nutrition program for 1,700 school children, and supplying porridge and health care to 400 children under 5 years of age in Garissa.
Our long-term response includes digging five boreholes in strategic locations that will supply water for the community and their livestock.
Please pray for the people impacted by malnutrition and starvation, for our staff and church partners as they respond in the Name of Christ, and for God's help in meeting the overwhelming needs of the region.
Crop failure, drought, and depleted livestock have led to famine-like conditions in a region straddling Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled to makeshift camps in northeast Kenya looking for emergency aid. Many are refugees from neighboring Somalia, who left their country in hopes of finding help over the border.The camps are overcrowded, and resources are stretched beyond capacity.
Conditions aren’t much better outside the camps. Samaritan’s Purse church partners are finding households facing dire shortages of basic food and water. The needs are overwhelming.
Some of the worst hit counties include Wajir and Garissa, areas considered the focal point of the Somalia refugee influx. In these regions, particularly where Samaritan’s Purse partners are involved, there is limited government assistance and little help from other agencies.
Samaritan’s Purse is responding to the crisis by working through our regional office in Kenya and our church partners, feeding 2,100 vulnerable families in Wajir and Garissa counties, providing a supplemental nutrition program for 1,700 school children, and supplying porridge and health care to 400 children under 5 years of age in Garissa.
Our long-term response includes digging five boreholes in strategic locations that will supply water for the community and their livestock.
Please pray for the people impacted by malnutrition and starvation, for our staff and church partners as they respond in the Name of Christ, and for God's help in meeting the overwhelming needs of the region.
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