Famine in the Horn of Africa: How to help (MSNBC)

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More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa require food assistance due to the region's worst drought in half a century, the United Nations says. - Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43841708/ns/nightly_news/t/famine-horn-africa-how-help/#.TkQAEr-eK8I">MSNBC

Eleven million. That's as if every man, woman, and child in the state of Ohio were in danger of starving. Or, put another way, the entire population of New York City and Chicago combined.
(Source: 2010 U.S. Census)

The UN says that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia, southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somali population — 3.7 million people — are now in crisis, of whom an estimated 2.8 million people are in the south.

But parts of Kenya and Ethiopia are also in crisis.

Here are some key organizations that are providing aid in the region....

- MSNBC has a list

Seeing video of just what is going on in Somalia on CNN last night made me realize how serious this is, and how we must help. Please give something if you can.


Parents wait with their malnourished and dehydrated children in a corridor at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu - www.un.org

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1. See "SOMALIA!!!" post from yesterday

for more info on the situation in Kenya.