Responding to East Africa's Hunger Crisis - May 2018 Situation Report

More than 1 million people were reached in May 2018 through World Vision's response to food insecurity, conflict, displacement and flooding throughout parts of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan. The response team reached: 

• 670,824 people with food security and livelihood activities
• 256,509 people with clean water and sanitation services
• 182,570 people with nutrition assistance
• 108,874 people with health care services
• 43,748 people with education programmes
• 36,333 people with protection assistance
• 8,062 people with shelter and other essential relief items

Still, there's more to do. 

World Vision remains concerned that: 

• Natural disasters and conflict has forced 8.5 million people to flee their homes across South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Conflict is the largest driver of displacement – with children often witnessing or experiencing horrific violence, exploitation and abuse.
• More than 12 million children go to bed hungry across South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya everyday. Children don’t have enough to eat because of various crises – drought, conflict, flooding or hyperinflation.
• 9 million children under age 5, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers require nutrition assistance and without it children’s growth and health will be irreversibly damaged.
• Children are at increased risk. When families don’t have the ability to grow or purchase food, children pay the price. Increased hunger forces ever younger girls into early marriage, makes children drop out of school, pushes boys and girls into child labour and other dangerous ways of surviving, thus dimming their opportunities for the future.
• 2.2 million struggling in aftermath of flooding and tropical storm. Tropical Storm Sagar devastated parts of Somaliland and Ethiopia and flooding wreaked havoc on wide areas of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia affecting millions of people. Crops have been destroyed and animals killed, leading to concerns about a lack of food in months to come.

To address these issues, and meet the needs of people in need, World Vision has requested an additional $64.9 million to expand its response.

For more information about World Vision's response in East Africa, please download our May 2018 Situation Report.