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Oxfam ask Blacknet readers to donate in response to East Africa emergency

Spiralling food prices tip millions towards catastrophe

Oxfam is calling on Blacknet readers to donate to support their emergency response across East Africa. Skyrocketing food prices risk pushing millions of people across East Africa towards severe hunger and destitution. A number of factors including successive droughts, violent conflict and chronic poverty have put an estimated 9 to 13 million people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

Oxfam is currently working with people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Northern Kenya to help stop the crisis escalating. The agency says it needs the support of people throughout the country to make a difference to their emergency assistance operation.

Donate by going to any Oxfam shop, calling 0300 200 1300 or going to www.oxfam.org.uk

Pete Bullock, Campaigns Manager, Oxfam London said,

“ Oxfam are asking all Blacknet readers to support our work in East Africa and give what they can. Oxfam has a team of people working throughout East Africa but they can only get emergency assistance to people with the help of the public.

Oxfam’s Rob McNeil, who has just returned from a fact-finding mission in the Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia, said,

“ The cost of food has escalated by up to 500 percent in some places, leaving people, who have suffered drought after drought, in utter destitution. Some of the roads we travelled on were littered with dead livestock. There is little or no pasture or water for the animals that people rely upon. People are increasingly becoming desperate.

“ I saw women in one village reduced to pound the food pellets intended for their animals into porridge to feed their families. We fear that the worst could be yet to come as across the rest of East Africa similar stories are unfolding.”

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