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Sahel mother with children

West Africa: a further £120,000 to help people facing food crisis

22 May 2012

The British Red Cross is sending a further £120,000 from its Disaster Fund to support work in west Africa tackling a severe food crisis.

Agro-pastoralists in Tin Akof, northern Burkina Faso, at a Red Cross distribution of food vouchers.

What we are doing in west Africa

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is helping across Burkina Faso, Chad, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Niger.

Sorhow and some of her children

Sorhow's story: hunger is hard to deal with

Usually Sorhow's family grows enough millet and sorghum to feed themselves, but inadequate rainfall caused their last harvest to fail.

Alwilayat Mohamed and her family

Alwilayat's story: struggling to feed our children

Alwilayat has already lost two daughters under the age of five and is facing a daunting struggle to feed her two sons.

Ouilimatou in his grandmother's lap

Ouilimatou's story: young and hungry

As Ouilimatou lies, listless, in his grandmother’s lap he does not look like a child who is nearly two years old.

Six-month-old Issa being assessed as malnourished

Hadjatou’s story: no food for my child

Hadjatou cradles her six-month-old son after learning from a Red Cross nurse that her baby is acutely malnourished.

Mother and child at a Red Cross community-based nutrition project

British Red Cross releases funds to support west Africa

21 Mar 2012

The British Red Cross has released £125,000 from its Disaster Fund in an attempt to head off a looming disaster in the Sahel region of west Africa.

Agro-pastoralist in Tin Akof, northern Burkina Faso

British Red Cross launches West Africa Food Crisis Appeal

16 Mar 2012

To help stem the worsening food crisis across west Africa, the British Red Cross has launched its West Africa Food Crisis Appeal.

Goat herder in Tahoua

West Africa Food Crisis 2005

A major food shortage affected almost eight million people in west Africa. We helped with the logistics of delivering food aid.

Aid boxes

Africa Food Crisis 2006

We launched an appeal in 2006 to help people across Africa survive when drought and inflated prices left them without enough food.

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