FOOD

Because of the drought in Southern Somalia, Aisha had to leave her husband and two of her children to search for food. She walked for thirty days before she reached a refugee camp where many are still struggling to eat enough each day to survive. BE food to help people like Aisha.

Be Food. Be food to help fight the drought in the Horn of Africa and protect families from future food shortages

Your Choice:

Dedicate your Famine to Food and you will help deliver emergency food for children and families in the Horn of Africa. You will also be helping to protect families and communities in Uganda and Ethiopia to help ensure that a crisis like this never happens again.

Your Impact

By dedicating your Famine to Food you will help:

  • Provide emergency relief for families impacted by drought in Horn of Africa.
  • Train 800 families to farm and store food
  • Provide 800 families with a cow and seeds for plants to prevent future droughts.
  • Give oxen and ox-ploughs to farmers.
  • Organize farmers to work together and grow more crops.
  • Improve the nutrition of pregnant women, mothers and young children.

On food:

“We are creatures, and we’re so quick to forget the pain of hunger once we have a meal in our stomach.”

Jon Foreman
Lead Singer,
Switchfoot

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