Humanitarian needs: An estimated 30 million people across East Africa region are in need of humanitarian assistance. Various crises like conflict, drought, floods, and disease outbreaks and rising cost of fuel and food prices have left them extremely vulnerable.
Families are food insecure: An estimated 15 million people in South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, are at risk of not having enough food to eat due to poor harvests following drought conditions and floods, and the threat of conflict that has disrupted people’s livelihoods and rising food prices. South Sudan is the hardest hit with 7.1 million at risk of acute food insecurity, and 2.3 million in the emergency phase of food insecurity-just one level down from famine. Children don’t have enough to eat because of various crises, and as a result face the greatest risk of malnutrition.
Internal conflicts on the increase: 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. Internal conflicts in the Oromia, SNNP and Somali regions has led to a mass displacement crisis in the southern part of Ethiopia, prompting a surge in the number of people needing urgent humanitarian assistance.
World Vision response: World Vision is responding to the needs of families in crises in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, reaching more than 3 million people in July 2018. Still, large-scale, long-term lifesaving assistance as well as support in recovery is needed to respond to the needs of populations affected by the effects of conflict, threatened by diseases and natural disasters like drought and floods. For more information, download our July 2018 situation report.
