Eastern Africa Food Crisis by Ricky & Ty
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• Over 2 million children are severely malnourished in east Africa
• Treated 1 million children for malnourished
Fact about east Africa food crisis
• Parts of east Africa are the driest they have been in 60 years.
• Delivered 63,000 metric tons of humanitarian aim including 31,500 tons of therapeutic food.
• Immunized 1.5 million children (31% of county’s children) against deadly disease in Somalia.
• Scaled up response in nutrition, water and sanitation in Kenya, resulting in a three-fold.
• 1 million children are at risk of severe malnutrition.
• 10 million people are at risk
• Life-threatening malaria and cholera are rife
• 12 million people are in dire need of food, clean water, and basic sanitation