FAQs

World Vision is on the ground, helping those most affected by the crisis. Your donations to the East Africa Hunger Crisis will enable us to support the health, nutrition, child protection, livelihoods, shelter, education and water and sanitation needs of the most vulnerable children and families. Our response to the crisis varies in each country to meet specific needs: 

South Sudan

• Screening and treating children for malnutrition 
• Distributing emergency food
• Educating pregnant and breastfeeding women
• Enrolling children in education in internally displaced people camps
• Creating Child Friendly Spaces
• Trucking drinking water into displaced persons camps

Kenya

• Screening and treating children for malnutrition 
• Drilling and rehabilitating boreholes and supplying water tanks to schools
• Distributing water purification tablets
• Starting cash for work programmes
• Creating Child Friendly Spaces
• Enrolling displaced children in local schools

Ethiopia

• Training health workers in how to manage severe acute malnutrition
• Distributing emergency food 
• Providing medical supplies to health clinics
• Distributing seeds to plants for harvests
• Providing school support for displaced children
• Screening and treating children for malnutrition 

Somalia

• Supporting health clinics with supplies and personnel
• Trucking drinking water into displaced persons camps
• Distributing emergency food
• Screening and treating children for malnutrition 
• Distributing non-food essential items. 

Climate change is a social problem, not just an environmental one. Many of the countries the most exposed to extreme weather events and a changing climate are also those facing the most significant barriers to adapting to its impacts - and these are countries where World Vision works.

  In these regions, climate change is threatening food security, agriculture, water supplies, economic stability and health, especially among children. For example, extreme weather events can spread diseases including diarrhoea, leptospirosis, cholera, and typhoid through exposure to contaminated water or decreased hygiene due to water shortages. These diseases have the potential to kill children.

On top of this, climate change is causing large scale displacement of people within countries and sometimes across country borders. This climate-related migration poses major health risks to those on the move. Without proper planning, migration can place people in dangerous and precarious living situations. Migrating also threatens communities’ connections with their lands, livelihoods, and cultural heritage.

These overlapping issues can be addressed directly through World Vision’s work. World Vision is working alongside communities, including in the Pacific, to strengthen their resilience to climate impacts so that they can remain in their homelands. The organisation is also partnering with women, children, and people with disabilities to strengthen their participation in decision-making and boost their disaster preparedness. At the same time, World Vision is taking actions that reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate change’s most severe effects.
 

Just because a project finishes, doesn't mean the development activities in the community come to an end. The whole aim of World Vision’s community work is ongoing sustainability. The community will continue planning and implementing activities and develop the skills they have learnt through the development process.

The cause of the East Africa hunger crisis is a complex combination of long term conflict, drought, and poor governance, and it has left over 24 million people across East Africa in urgent need of life saving assistance. 

The hunger crisis is forcing people to migrate into areas affected by conflict and putting children at huge risk of violence, exploitation and abuse. There are more than 6 million displaced and increasing fragility in the region, exacerbating the need to assist in multiple areas and contexts.