UNICEF: Victims of Ethiopian food crisis share their stories

SIRARO DISRICT, Ethiopia, 2 June 2008 -- UNICEF estimates that 126,000 children are in need of urgent therapeutic care for severe malnutrition in Ethiopia, and this number is likely to climb as more harvests fail.

The agency also estimates that 3.4 million Ethiopians will need food aid over the next three months, and that 6 million children are in danger of malnutrition.

"A child with severe malnutrition is in immediate danger of death," said UNICEF's Deputy Representative in Ethiopia, Viviane Van Steirteghem. "For the moment, NGOs are working in 55 woredas [districts], and they are, together with government, providing the capacity to take care of about 40 to 50 per cent -- but there is a big capacity gap to take care of the remaining children."

UNICEF correspondent Anwulika Okafor reports on victims of the Ethiopian food crisis who share their stories.

In this video, UNICEF correspondent Anwulika Okafor reports on victims of the Ethiopian food crisis who share their stories.

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[awdalland]

i bleave ethiopian goverment can not be able help this ppl coz they want be hungry in order the goverment get money from usa and united nation .... you guyz ethiopian you need to wake up and fight for the right of your people

[hunterJonathan12]

I think we Should help them they deserve to live like we do...... so sad.

[lmollot]

women of all sides unite for a WOMENS NATION- HIC INDIA 2005- recommended that religious excess lands be transferred to womens FARM collectives-to prevent drugs/alcohol-sex assauls/marital prostitution/rape of women/children/overpopulation/­­forced sex-pregnancies & joblessness &homelessness/MALNUTRITION/def­­orestation thru books/no water-give EQUALITY LANDS notcharities(profits for rich)-see iroquois birth control plants

[12Addison]

unicef is my hero. saved many lives!

[awdalland]

these ppl the goverment can able to help them so that is why goverment want to get money from us and un that is how ethiopian government make money from out side

[MrFitzm]

UNICEF has saved more lives than any organization since ww2.

[princedaniel10]

this is what wayany did to ethiopians meles zanawie and his people live like kings this is realtie in ethiopia