Canada: Government to Match Donations for Famine Relief in Africa

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The Canadian government said it would match donations made by Canadians to registered charities to create a famine relief fund for more than 20 million men, women and children who are at risk of starvation. International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said the fund would support Canadian and international organizations working to provide assistance in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen and neighbouring regions.

Conrad Sauve, the president of the Canadian Red Cross, said he recently returned from East Africa, where a cholera outbreak is adding to the misery. “Children can’t go to school and adults can’t go to work because their days are devoted to one thing: survival,” Sauve said. “Life has become a daily struggle for food and water.”

Potentially Millions of Lives in Africa Can Be Saved

Gillian Barth, the president of CARE Canada, said the search for water and food is driving people to the brink in affected countries. “Make no mistake, people have been dying, people are dying and people will continue to die. But thousands, if not millions, of lives can be saved.”

Bibeau said the government’s window to match donations is from March 17 to June 30. Millions of people in the four affected countries and neighbouring regions are in need of necessities including water, sanitation services, shelter and urgent food assistance, Bibeau added.  Read the full story…. thestar.com

 

CARE Canada: Stop Famine Together in Africa and Yemen

(CARE Canada) With famine already declared in South Sudan, families in parts of Africa and Yemen now urgently need help, including nearly 1.4 million children facing death from severe malnutrition.

As a member of the Humanitarian Coalition, CARE Canada is part of a national joint appeal for donations. For every eligible donation made by individual Canadians to registered Canadian charities retroactive from March 17 until June 30, 2017, the Government of Canada will contribute an equivalent amount to the Famine Relief Fund.

• Learn more today: http://care.ca/stop-famine-together

 

Social Media Comments:

People impacted by the drought and food crisis in Africa are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. #zerofamine https://t.co/EdQLckyFFN

— Conrad Sauvé (@ConradSauve) May 29, 2017

Aust providing further assistance to #Africa from humanitarian aid budget in response to conflict, drought, famine https://t.co/ypBFnKqIUW

— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) May 29, 2017

 

More resources:

South Sudan: People With Disabilities, Older People Face Danger – AllAfrica.com One year after the adoption, at the Istanbul Humanitarian Forum, of the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, the United Nations and aid organizations should do more to accommodate the specific needs of people with …

 

 

Violence in North Africa, Middle East puts health of 24 million children in jeopardy – UNICEF – UN News Centre UNICEF estimates that for the past seven months, 85,000 children have been trapped in western Mosul, with limited medical access and no humanitarian aid. Immunization programmes in Libya have been challenged since the 2011conflict erupted, with …Vatican RadioKaiser Family Foundation

 

US Spends N152b On Humanitarian Aid In Northeastern Nigeria – SaharaReporters.com The U.S. Deputy Director at the Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, in Washington, D.C., Mr. Nathan Holt, made the announcement in a teleconference with journalists from across Africa.

 

 

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