A severe food crisis is escalating across Africa – please help.
More than 140 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa, can’t get enough to eat, putting them in serious danger from disease and starvation.
It is a deadly and escalating situation that is pushing some of the most resilient and resourceful people in the world to their breaking point. Although that doesn’t happen overnight, the situation is still critical.
For example, in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria it’s expected that around 10 million children under the age of five will suffer from acute malnutrition this year.
We do not want to be sharing these awful numbers. But it is a catastrophic, escalating emergency, on a scale that we’ve not seen in recent history.
From the climate crisis triggering severe droughts and flash floods, to internal conflict, to rising food, fuel and fertiliser prices, it’s being driven by a complex combination of different factors. Red Cross and Red Crescent teams are providing immediate aid across different parts of the continent to reach communities hit hardest, with food, water, cash, nutrition services and healthcare.
To help with long term sustainable solutions, we’re also supporting people to build resilience, with tools and skills to help people to adapt to extreme weather and the effects of climate change.
There are solutions to this food crisis. Your donations can help now, and with sustainable local-led action in the longer term. Some of the world’s most resilient and resourceful people are being pushed to the very edge, losing their loved ones and livelihoods - the last thing we should do is give up on them.
Please donate to our Africa Food Crisis Appeal right now, if you can.
You can help us reach people who’ve been hit by this crisis.
£13 could provide a person with a month's supply of healthy and nutritious food.
£35 could help to provide training on climate-smart farming techniques and build resilience to future climate shocks.
£100 could help buy two goats for a family that may have lost their livestock to drought. This can restart a source of income for the family as well as provide milk for their children.
No gift is too small to make a difference, so if you can please donate today.
The Africa Food Crisis Appeal will support people in areas currently affected and those potentially affected in the future by the crisis. In the unlikely event that we raise more money than can be reasonably and efficiently spent, any surplus funds will be used to help us prepare for and respond to other humanitarian disasters anywhere in the world. For more information visit https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/disaster-fund.
