By YonasMamo | Project Leader & Executive Director
Dear Tiruzer Ethiopia for Africa (TEA) Save the lives of 200,000 drought victims project supporters, while we are still looking for supporters for the implementation of our projects, we have not spent the money you have donated because it is little in terms of our plan and also because of the extreme drought at least 35 children have died in recent weeks due to drought and conflict in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar region, according to a local hospital and the medical charity Doctors Without Borders.
“What scares us most at this point is that we are only beginning to see the very tip of the iceberg, and already it is overwhelming,” said Raphael Veicht, the group's emergency coordinator in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia is facing one of the worst droughts in the past 40 years following consecutive failed rains in the Horn of Africa. Recent Stories from ABC News.
Therefore, we will do our fundraising works in a strengthened way and ask that you provide your ongoing support and supervision.
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