Disaster Response Ethiopia Project #55501

Save the lives of 200,000 drought victims

by alignAfrica

Project Report | Jul 21, 2023
Save the lives of 200,000 drought victims

By Yonas Mamo | Executive Director

Quarterly Progress Report, it is known that our Organization Tiruzer Ethiopia for Africa (TEA), Aid to Drought Victims (#55501) project, is providing temporary water to the sheltered areas as well as sustainably extracting underground water to use it for drinking and irrigated farming.

As a result, we were able to help the drougt victimes in Amhara, Oromia by coordinating volunteers and distributing water, food and cloths for more than five thousand children, women and the elderly. For this, with the help of cash, inkind and professional support we received from three water tanker truck owners, 210 young volunteers. With this, we have been able to help those who lack clean drinking water.
However, as the number of evacuees is constantly increasing, acute diarrhea and vomiting disease have occurred due to lack of sanitation.

Dear donors, Ethiopia is more than ever, where millions of people have been displaced due to drought , internal conflict, more than 20.5 million people need urgent food aid. Apart from providing temporary water by boat truck, it is important to draw out surface water so that people and animals can get clean water and farmers can ensure their food security through irrigation.

One of the challenges we face is that we cannot find volunteers to do our online fundraising using the GlobalGiving System.
Dear volunteers, donors, ITC experts, all those who work in various private and government institutions, etc., you can coordinate and collect online fundraising work in a way that is convenient for you, and if you are convenient, you can come and work together in person withus in Ethiopia. We respectfully ask you to help us from wherever you are by using various social media platforms.

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Jan 12, 2023
Save the lives of 200,000 drought victims

By Yonas Mamo | Project Leader

Sep 26, 2022
Save the lives of 200,000 drought victims progress Report

By YonasMamo | Project Leader & Executive Director

Dear the GlobalGiving Team and our supporters,

Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to raise funds to purchase a deep water well drilling machine. We have not found any individual or organization to donate a water-drilling machine. Surprisingly, many animals and people are still dying due to lack of water in different parts of the country due to the drought.

Case story; how pastoralists in Ethiopia starve and are displaced by drought

A devastating drought is causing the worst food crisis to hit Ethiopia in 30 years, putting millions of people at risk of hunger and disease. The Ethiopian government estimates that 10.2 million people will need humanitarian assistance in 2016. We are helping over 1,000 people by trucking in water, repairing boreholes and wells, and giving out animal feed. The provision of clean, safe water during a food crisis is vital for drinking, cooking and for hygiene.

Many people like Habodo (pictured above) are living in small community settlements after being forced to leave their land in search of food and water when their livestock died.

Habodo’s story

Habodo lives with five of her seven children in a small wooden shelter, covered in animal skins, in a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Siti Zone of Ethiopia.

“We have stopped here because there is no water anywhere else. We couldn’t take our house with us. The sun disturbs us. We don’t even have blankets”, she explains, while sitting outside their small shelter.

“The water provided by aid organization here is great for us because it means we don’t have to travel for hours to collect it. Before the water truck we had to travel a long way to collect water. We would start walking at 6 AM and get home at 12 noon.” Although the water is helping Habodo and her family survive, the drought is still having a huge impact on their lives. “The hunger is too much, so we have started eating strange things” like “tree roots, but they don’t have any taste and they don’t remove our hunger. We feel paralysed and powerless.”

Howa sits with her daughter outside their shelter in the Harisso internally displaced persons (IDP) site, Siti Zone, Somali region, Ethiopia.

Please come let's work together to save lives.

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