Horn of Africa Drought 2011 - Give me hope that 'help' is coming !

This music video (featuring a remix of the Tracy Chapman song 'Let It Rain') endeavours to highlight the urgent need of our brothers and sisters in Horn of Africa, whose lives are endangered by the worst drought in sixty years. More than 10 million people (including those in the worst affected areas of Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Ethiopia).

United Nations and international aid agencies say the crisis is overwhelming their ability to provide assistance to the millions of people who are suffering... and as the agencies are overstretched and under-funded, they are appealing for more help from the international community.

The U.N. Children's Fund estimates more than two million young children from the Horn of Africa are malnourished, and in need of urgent life-saving actions. It says half a million of those children are facing imminent life-threatening conditions... and warns that many of the children may be left with long-lasting physical and mental problems.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are fully stretched in various locations inside Somalia, as well as assisting exhausted refugees crossing Somalia's borders into Ethiopia and Kenya.

According to World Vision... Risks of the outbreak of disease are growing, and people's access to food and water is in jeopardy. Children are among those most vulnerable in the worst hit countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.

Save the Children has advised that more than a quarter of children in the worst-hit parts of Kenya are now dangerously malnourished... and in Somalia, malnutrition rates have reached 30 percent in some areas, making the Horn of Africa one of the hungriest places on earth.
Save the Children has already launched a major humanitarian response in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia... feeding tens of thousands of underweight children; providing life-saving medical treatment; and getting clean water to remote communities. But with the situation worsening by the day - and no more rain due till late September - Save the Children urgently needs money to dramatically ramp up its response.
According to Matt Croucher, Save the Children's regional emergency manager for East Africa... "Thousands of children could starve if we don't get life-saving help to them fast"... "Parents no longer have any way to feed their children; they've lost their animals; their wells have dried up; and food is too expensive to afford"... "We can stop this tragedy unfolding, but we only have half the money we need. We urgently need to raise the rest so we can save more children's lives."



Donations can be made at the following sources...

World Food Programme
https://www.wfp.org/donate/hoa_banners


Save the Children
https://secure.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6239017/k.569B/Chil...


Médecins Sans Frontières
http://www.msf.org/msf/donations/donations_home.cfm


CARE International
https://my.care.org/site/Donation2?df_id=9140&9140.donation=form1&708...


World Vision
http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?funnel=dn&...


unicef
http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=9fLEJSOALpE&b=7542627


Plan International
http://plan-international.org/what-you-can-do/emergency-appeals/east-africa-a...


Oxfam International
http://www.oxfam.org/en/emergencies/east-africa-food-crisis#donate


Islamic Relief Worldwide
https://www.donate.bt.com/DEC/dec_form_eaca.html?p_form_id=PFA45

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[baljeetd]

I'm not religious, but I have donated. Thank you peoplepassion.

[peoplepassion]

@baljeetd

I'm not 'religious' either, dear friend...

Nor was God !!!

[rrazzaqu]

May Allah help them, inshallah! :)

[Maayanify]

My country could give Africa loads of food. Obesity is outrageous in America. We have too much food. Giving food to the country that is starving just makes sense. I want to help but I can't and the ones who can will not.

[hanita34]

am realy sad to look it but i cant help them because am not rich but after a year i will be a doctor and maybe am going there to treat them and give them medicines i wish i will not be late if you like my idea thumb up please and i need more ideas

[09alltomyself]

; While watching this video, I realized how I am so lucky to have my parents bringing food to our table every single day. I remembered those days I would walk out of the house , getting upset just because I didnt like the food they've prepared for dinner. After watching this video, I said to myself, MY IGNORANCE IS OVER.

My hopes & prayers goes out to these kids/people. Keep holding on tight to God's hands. <3

[WuNdAfRiEnD]

@baljeetd What does being religious have to do with donating?

I agree with peoplepassion --- Christ himself wasn't even religious. In fact he was the one that rose up against the religion of the time...and ended up dying for teaching love...and not tradition, and rituals.

[roziahangalia]

O mankind when will your heart think of others that are suffering out there. While we live to eat they need help from u so that they have food to eat inorder to live

[487shawn]

thank you tracy but where are the rest of todays artist?, where are the micheal jackson's and the bob geldoff's of today's artist? is it all about personal gratification and money why aren't they paying it forward? its sad that they do not see the past than desperate children!

[shaheryarify]

may allah help our fellow human beings :((

[petegrierson]

You don't need to be religious to respond to this, only human.

[iSelenaBee5531]

My Jesus Help Them,

[Sonnenblume599]

I am so unhappy to see this. Let us help this children and let us give a child a home.

I want to give a child a good home.Let me help a child ! I will pray for this bad situation there.