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Latest update: Meth has created a new post, directing donations to www.firstgiving.com:
http://niketalk.yuku.com/...-Somalia--s-time--act-NT
Let's work together and donate there!
Sup everyone. I'm sure most of you have heard the recent news about the drought/famine in East Africa. I'm about to donate a little money to help ongoing efforts, but I wanted to see NT would join in! We've done a lot of good as an online community in helping those in need, and I feel like there are a few of you on here that would be more than willing to help in this scenario. To me, one of the most urgent aspects of this crisis is that many lives can still be saved. The crisis is very complex (as Ban Ki Moon said recently, a "catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought"), but donating even a little bit will go a long way.
Edit: NT for East Africa on Mercy Corps. Some of us have already donated a little, but how about we try for $100 more? I know we can do that!� There are also some links to other organizations we can donate to on the webpage.
http://www.mercycorps.org/fundraising/nt_1
This is one place to donate (same place we've donated over $20k to Japan!), but I've also added in a few sites to the list that a certain NTer suggested. I wish I had time to really research the best possible option, so if anyone has any suggestions, let us all know!
Come on NT, even 5 bucks helps - that's less than one burrito at Chipotle!
Remember: if you can't donate $, please just click the sig!
Update - Sorry I haven't been updating this thread recently. I just wanted to share the news that, last week, one of us donated $150 to Mercy Corps. I cannot describe how thankful I am to that person. Definitely proud to be a member of this forum right now. I will be donating a little bit again soon, so please join me!
So far, at least 29,000 children have fallen victim to this situation:
http://english.aljazeera..../201184143013155850.html
I also wanted to share this email I received from Mercy Corps recently:
[size=-2]Erin Gray/Mercy Corps[/size]
Hibo -- a tiny, chubby-cheeked three year old seemed to take great delight in looking everywhere except my camera as I tried to take her photo. From her mother's hip she giggled, turned away and made faces, to the amusement of allaround.
Hibo is tiny for her age because until recently, she was classed as having "severe acute malnutrition," the most serious of its kind. Hibo's cheeks have grown chubby thanks to one of Mercy Corps' mobile emergency clinics where she was ableto get the food and treatment she needed to recover, put on some weight and get back to being an ordinary, mischievous toddler.
"She had many pains from drinking bad water and not enough food," her mother, Zainab, told me. "She had diarrhea, fever, no appetite. We have only flour and oil to eat and all the pasture has died with no rain, so our animals died too. Ibrought her to the clinic because it is the only place for such help. They gave her special food and medicines, and took us to a center nearby where she stayed and got better. Now she is very well and happy. I bring her here often to makesure she stays healthy."
Mercy Corps' mobile health and nutrition teams travel around remote parts of Ethiopia, checking for and treating malnutrition in pregnant and nursing women, as well as children under five. The mobile clinics, which can each see up to 150people every day, are often the only health facility available to the communities they reach.
After a nine-hour drive on dirt roads from the nearest major town, I met Hibo and Zainab as they waited, along with more than 100 others, for their turn to see the Mercy Corps nurses and nutrition specialists. The land around them, whilenormally among the best in the area, was dry and harsh, with red dust blowing everywhere and camels wandering in the distance.
The team assessed everyone, looking for signs of malnutrition. Those with moderate malnutrition are given food supplies, advice on how to recover, and follow-up check-ins. Those with severe acute malnutrition are given special fortifiedfoods, medicines when needed, and, in some cases like Hibo's, taken to a recovery center. Mercy Corps also trained and supplied two local centers so they can continue giving much-needed support to hungry children and mothers.
Between the mobile clinics and recovery centers it's clear our teams are making a real difference. But the nutrition team told me that the spike in the rates of malnourishment they've seen lately will make meeting the huge and very realneed incredibly challenging, especially as the drought continues and the situation gets much worse.
Later, as I turned to leave the clinic and begin the long drive back to the nearest town, I looked back at Hibo. She was pulling her mother's scarf and gurgling merrily, like a happy child anywhere else in the world.
With your help, we can make sure more toddlers like Hibo and their families can get the clean water, nutritious food and medicines they need to survive this drought.
http://niketalk.yuku.com/...-Somalia--s-time--act-NT
Let's work together and donate there!
Sup everyone. I'm sure most of you have heard the recent news about the drought/famine in East Africa. I'm about to donate a little money to help ongoing efforts, but I wanted to see NT would join in! We've done a lot of good as an online community in helping those in need, and I feel like there are a few of you on here that would be more than willing to help in this scenario. To me, one of the most urgent aspects of this crisis is that many lives can still be saved. The crisis is very complex (as Ban Ki Moon said recently, a "catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought"), but donating even a little bit will go a long way.
Edit: NT for East Africa on Mercy Corps. Some of us have already donated a little, but how about we try for $100 more? I know we can do that!� There are also some links to other organizations we can donate to on the webpage.
http://www.mercycorps.org/fundraising/nt_1
This is one place to donate (same place we've donated over $20k to Japan!), but I've also added in a few sites to the list that a certain NTer suggested. I wish I had time to really research the best possible option, so if anyone has any suggestions, let us all know!
Come on NT, even 5 bucks helps - that's less than one burrito at Chipotle!
Remember: if you can't donate $, please just click the sig!
Update - Sorry I haven't been updating this thread recently. I just wanted to share the news that, last week, one of us donated $150 to Mercy Corps. I cannot describe how thankful I am to that person. Definitely proud to be a member of this forum right now. I will be donating a little bit again soon, so please join me!
So far, at least 29,000 children have fallen victim to this situation:
http://english.aljazeera..../201184143013155850.html
I also wanted to share this email I received from Mercy Corps recently:
[size=-2]Erin Gray/Mercy Corps[/size]
Hibo -- a tiny, chubby-cheeked three year old seemed to take great delight in looking everywhere except my camera as I tried to take her photo. From her mother's hip she giggled, turned away and made faces, to the amusement of allaround.
Hibo is tiny for her age because until recently, she was classed as having "severe acute malnutrition," the most serious of its kind. Hibo's cheeks have grown chubby thanks to one of Mercy Corps' mobile emergency clinics where she was ableto get the food and treatment she needed to recover, put on some weight and get back to being an ordinary, mischievous toddler.
"She had many pains from drinking bad water and not enough food," her mother, Zainab, told me. "She had diarrhea, fever, no appetite. We have only flour and oil to eat and all the pasture has died with no rain, so our animals died too. Ibrought her to the clinic because it is the only place for such help. They gave her special food and medicines, and took us to a center nearby where she stayed and got better. Now she is very well and happy. I bring her here often to makesure she stays healthy."
Mercy Corps' mobile health and nutrition teams travel around remote parts of Ethiopia, checking for and treating malnutrition in pregnant and nursing women, as well as children under five. The mobile clinics, which can each see up to 150people every day, are often the only health facility available to the communities they reach.
After a nine-hour drive on dirt roads from the nearest major town, I met Hibo and Zainab as they waited, along with more than 100 others, for their turn to see the Mercy Corps nurses and nutrition specialists. The land around them, whilenormally among the best in the area, was dry and harsh, with red dust blowing everywhere and camels wandering in the distance.
The team assessed everyone, looking for signs of malnutrition. Those with moderate malnutrition are given food supplies, advice on how to recover, and follow-up check-ins. Those with severe acute malnutrition are given special fortifiedfoods, medicines when needed, and, in some cases like Hibo's, taken to a recovery center. Mercy Corps also trained and supplied two local centers so they can continue giving much-needed support to hungry children and mothers.
Between the mobile clinics and recovery centers it's clear our teams are making a real difference. But the nutrition team told me that the spike in the rates of malnourishment they've seen lately will make meeting the huge and very realneed incredibly challenging, especially as the drought continues and the situation gets much worse.
Later, as I turned to leave the clinic and begin the long drive back to the nearest town, I looked back at Hibo. She was pulling her mother's scarf and gurgling merrily, like a happy child anywhere else in the world.
With your help, we can make sure more toddlers like Hibo and their families can get the clean water, nutritious food and medicines they need to survive this drought.