News Update

November 6, 2009 — WESTPORT, Conn. — Save the Children launched emergency food aid programs to reach some of northeast Kenya's most vulnerable children and their families, all threatened by a hunger crisis brought on by consecutive crop failures and withering drought. Read the latest press release.

Learn more about global food issues from Save the Children's Carolyn Miles, speaking at the World Affairs Council in Pittsburgh, PA. Watch the webcast.

Our Emergency Response in Kenya

In northeast Kenya, Save the Children has more than 70 remote outreach sites that deliver therapeutic and supplelmentary feeding to malnourished children and pregnant or lactating women. Our response also includes:

• vouchers for protein-rich foods, like meat and milk;
• support for livestock producers; 
• a safety-net program, in development with the Kenyan government, to help families provide for themselves and not be forced to sell off assets, including livestock.
• pre-positioned non-food items to be distributed in case families lose their already meager belongings in expected flooding.
• child protection programs that include child-friendly spaces and counseling in refugee camps

What You Can Do Now

Save the children needs your support for our immediate and long term response to the current child hunger crisis in Kenya. Even a small amount can go a long way toward providing life-saving relief for children. For instance:

With a donation of $70, we can provide an eight-week supply of ready-to-use food packets that can help give a severely malnourished child enough life-saving treatment to restore health and vitality.

This is just one example of the things Save the Children provides to meet the critical needs of children and families during the current child hunger crisis in Kenya. Your support can make it possible for us do this and so much more.

DONATE NOW  to support Save the Children's immediate and long term response to the current child hunger crisis in Kenya.

Our Global Response to Child Hunger

Globally, Save the Children is part of a broad-based coalition — which numbers more than 30 organizations, among them Bread for the World, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Friends of the World Food Program, Mercy Corps and World Vision — to support "The Roadmap End Global Hunger," a strategic plan to address global hunger in the short, intermediate and long term.

The plan calls on the Obama administration and Congress to work together with governments and citizens all over the world to reach the established international goal of cutting global hunger in half by 2015.