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WEST AFRICA HUNGER CRISIS
A deadly combination of crop shortages, rising food prices and insecurity in neighbouring countries has left over 18 million people across West Africa facing a growing hunger crisis. Acute malnutrition, the most severe form of hunger, has been at critical levels in parts of West Africa for many years. Young children are smaller, weaker and far more vulnerable, so their chances of survival are lower. Over 1 million children’s lives are at stake!!
Children are suffering the consequences
Saado Ado and his wife Tsahara with their sons Habou and Chabiou at their home in Kourni Ban Dawa village. Habou has been registered as severely malnourished at Save the Children's Out Patient Therapeutic Programme (OPT) where he has been receiving treatment. Zinder Region, Niger.(photo credit: Jonathan Hyams / Save the Children)
- Children are suffering from chronic malnutrition when they do not have enough nutritious and healthy food, affecting just under 50% of all children in Niger and causing stunting amongst 30% of children in Burkina Faso.
- Children are dropping out of school in order to earn money to help their families.
- Children are fostered out by their parents who are unable to feed them and are struggling to survive by eating foul-tasting leaves.
Save the Children is on the ground
We are aiming to reach more than 1.5 million children and their families with a package of aid, including health care, child protection and nutrition.
1.In Niger, since 2005, we have already reached over 330,000 vulnerable children with nutritious food & livelihoods support to stop them falling into crisis and but need to reach more families.
2.In Burkina Faso, we have reached 55,000 vulnerable families & children with rapidly delivered blankets, soap & education materials to newly arrived refugees as well as malnutrition screening and treatment.
3.In Mali, we delivered hygiene kits, including soap & buckets to over 1,000 extremely vulnerable displaced people – benefitting 600 children. Our team is urgently delivering seeds & tools to 129,619 most vulnerable people in Sikasso region in the South.
Save the Children staff distributing hygiene kits to displaced Malians and host community member in Gao, Mali. The kits included items like soap, toothpaste, washcloths. (photo credit: Save the Children)
Little Oubaidate is treated and given therapeutic milk at a medical centre in Barsalgho, Burkina Faso(photo credit: Hedinn Halldorsson / Save the Children)
What your donations can do
With millions of people to help, supporters sometimes ask “what can my small contribution do?” But the truth is, any little bit you can give can make a life-changing difference for a child in desperate need of food, care and support.
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HK$500 |
Could pay for 10 days zinc tablets for 12 malnourished children suffering from diarrhea |
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HK$1,200 |
Could pay for an ambulance in Burkina Faso to transport 8 children 85km from their village to receive quality health care at the hospital |
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HK$2,400 |
Could provide 2-weeks therapeutic milk to treat 8 severely malnourished children
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HK$3,500 |
Could pay for a child suffering from severe malnutrition with medical complications to receive a 2-weeks treatment at a stabilization centre in Burkina Faso. |
Save the Children has been in West Africa for over 30 years, building communities’ resilience & delivery life-saving emergency feedback to tens of thousands of children in times of crisis.
Together, we can save more lives.
