By Karen Cooper | Chief Development Officer
Your generous support has helped us get ready-to-use foods to Ethiopian mothers and children facing the worst drought in 50 years. Edesia and our partners have been pre-positioning stockpiles of our life-saving, nutritious products in advance of the potential famine so they are more easily accessible and can get to children in need as soon as possible. This time, unlike in 1984, when drought triggered famine and mass migration, people are able to receive relief and nutrition assistance sooner at health centers.
Recently a young mother, Marianna, was able to receive Plumpy'Nut for her two-year-old daughter, Tamina, at a community health post in rural Ethiopia. Tamina had been diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition. Marianna declared that without Plumpy'Nut she would have had absolutely nothing left to give.
“We lost everything. We haven’t harvested any crops for over two years – nothing. While we wait for the rain to return... we are living hand to mouth. Gone are the days that we harvested maize, wheat, sorghum. Last year nothing grew.” she told the staff.
In the wake of the most severe El Nino to strike the region in decades, mothers are left desperate. The effects of this crisis are expected to linger into 2017 and Edesia continues to ship orders of our ready-to-use foods (Plumpy’Nut and Plumpy’Sup) to the most impacted regions in Ethiopia.
Thank you for joining the fight against child malnutrition for children in crisis. Together we are saving lives and making the world a better place for children.
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