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East Africa Food Crisis Appeal

Please make a donation to the East Africa Food Crisis Appeal

Famine, drought and conflict have left millions of people needing food, water and healthcare.

The Red Cross has already acted to mitigate the impact of drought in the region, but we urgently need more funds to provide emergency relief, help people recover their livelihoods and improve communities’ resilience to future disasters.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is providing healthcare and therapeutic feeding programmes for people in famine-stricken Somalia. We are also working in Kenya, helping improve communities’ resilience to future disasters by supporting local agriculture.

How your donation could help



  • Donate £20
    £20

    £20 could buy ten jerry cans to enable a family to transport and store water safely.

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  • Donate £45
    £45

    £45 could provide a group of farmers with 30 fruit tree seedlings.

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  • Donate £75
    £75

    £75 could provide a farmer with a plough to help them prepare their land ready for planting.

    Donate £75  >

Latest news from East Africa

Thousands of Kenyan kids are now in school thanks to a Red Cross feeding programme.

Kenya Red Cross water and sanitation officer Paul Waikwa is helping lead a project to pump water to seven drought-affected communities.

Kanyang's grandmother brought him to the Kenya Red Cross' centre for severely malnourished children, and he's now recovering.

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Donate by phone

0845 054 7200 (24 Hours)

The East Africa Food Crisis Appeal will cover numerous countries including those currently affected and those potentially affected in the future. In the unlikely event that we raise more money than can be reasonably and efficiently spent, any surplus funds will be used to help us prepare for and respond to other humanitarian disasters either overseas or here in the UK.

Donate by post:

Please send cheques made payable to British Red Cross to:

British Red Cross
East Africa Food Crisis Appeal
44 Moorfields
London
EC2Y 9AL