Levels of malnutrition among refugee children are catastrophic. Up to 50% of Somali children arriving in Ethiopia and Kenya are seriously malnourished, utterly exhausted and sometimes dying within 24 hours of reaching safety.
Please support UNHCR’s existing refugee relief in Kenya and Ethiopia and help us establish new camps to provide shelter, food, water and protection for thousands of new refugees.
According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, 25% of Somalia’s 7.5 million people are now forcibly displaced. "The drought, compounded by prevailing violence in southern and central parts of the country, is turning one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises into a human tragedy of unimaginable proportions," says Guterres.
Overcrowding is a major problem. Originally built for 90,000 refugees, the Dadaab camps in Kenya are now home to 382,000 people. On average, 1,400 more refugees arrive every day.
We have already delivered 100 tons of aid to Ethiopia by air. Now, a land convoy of 20 trucks, loaded with thousands of tents, is on the way.
You can help multiply these efforts. Your generous contribution will help people who are streaming into our camps with nothing but the clothes they wear.
Any amount will make a difference:
•$200 will provide an all-weather tent to shelter a refugee family.
•$100 will provide a refugee with a survival kit containing a blanket, a mattress, a kitchen set, a stove and soap.
•$50 will provide a therapeutic feeding kit to help feed five children.
Thank you,
UNHCR
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