PEOPLE IN MANY COUNTRIES FACING IMMINENT FAMINE

820 million people around the world are starving or suffering from malnutrition. These people have nothing to eat and their plates are empty every day. There are several key causes all occurring simultaneously: as a result of the climate crisis, wars, and the coronavirus pandemic, people are currently facing the biggest global hunger crisis of the century. Also, the ongoing war in Ukraine has already led to rising food prices, which in turn has led to a rapid increase in the number of malnourished children. We have to stop this.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, 5.7 million children under the age of five are currently suffering from malnutrition. In addition to countries in the Middle East such as Yemen and Syria, the situations in the central Sahel, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan are particularly alarming.

 

820 million

people around the world are starving or suffering from malnutrition

How we help

Medical supplies

We treat malnourished children in health centres and provide them with nutritious peanut paste and vitamins.

Nutrition programme

Parents are given training in how to feed their children healthily within modest means, and are given food packages.

Education

School children in our educational projects are given hot meals – often their only real meal of the day.

Save the Children works with health teams worldwide and supports local health facilities in many places to ensure that life-saving treatment is provided for malnourished children.

How your donation can help

 

With 60 Swiss francs

for example, you can provide nutrient-rich emergency food such as peanut paste to a malnourished child in Yemen for eight weeks.

With 120 Swiss francs

for example, a family of six can receive enough food for around seven weeks.

With 250 Swiss francs

for example, you can fund meals for 250 school children on a school day in South Sudan, so that children can go to school despite the looming food crisis.

 

Your donation will be used for all of our activities and deployed where disadvantaged children need it the most.

THE FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AFFECTED BY FAMINE URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP TO SURVIVE!