Those interested in the drought crisis in East Africa may be interested in
the below (especially if you are in the UK). From an advocacy perspective it
would be very useful if any of you who decide to be a part of these forums
asked questions about how aid orgs are supporting young infants.
Unfortunately, even in the very best of aid orgs infants under 6 months are
often not targeted for aid because people understand that they should be
breastfed.they do not understand that this still means that they need help
and that they need to help the mothers to help their babies. Raising the
issue of the need to support all infants and young children in emergencies
is also helpful in terms of letting aid and media orgs know that ensuring
that appropriate aid is provided is important to potential donors..really
important.

 

The below message is from Save the Children UK

Note: Save the Children UK has a good reputation for providing appropriate
aid to infants and young children (so if you  ask what they are doing it may
well give them a good opportunity to say some good stuff). Plan
International doesn't focus on infant and young child feeding and have made
some doosey mistakes in the past.

Please forward this message on elsewhere.

Karleen Gribble 

Australia

 

 

Live East Africa Teleconference

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 7pm 

 

Dear all, 

 

At 7pm tomorrow evening, Gareth Owen, our Humanitarian Director and Andrew
Wander, our Emergency Media Manager who is currently in Dadaab refugee camp
in northern Kenya, will be hosting a live teleconference call giving our
supporters the unique opportunity to find out more about the crisis in East
Africa.

 

This 20-minute conference call is a chance to hear directly from the
frontline - so make sure you join in. Full details can be found here
<http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=7&ea.campa
ign.id=11209&ea.param.extras=tracking:website> . Please share this link with
your networks, family, friends, supporters and all those who have shown an
interest in our East Africa response. 

 

The Guardian will also be holding a live online chat
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/jul/12/live-online-chat-e
ast-africa-food-crisis>  tomorrow between 4 - 5pm with Mike Sunderland, our
Media Manager - Africa on the situation in East Africa, along with David
Throp, Plan International's Country Director in Ethiopia.You can post your
questions now. 

 

Our media coverage of the East Africa Food Crisis continues, with a double
page spread in Grazia, a piece from Justin in the Huffington Post
<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/justin-forsyth/east-africa-food-crisis_b_89
4558.html?ir=UK> , coverage on Al Jazeera
<http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/20117114319179235.html>
and this photo gallery in the Guardian
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/gallery/2011/jul/08/east-afric
a-drought-in-pictures?picture=376547799#/?picture=376547827&index=11> .
Don't forget to also have a look at Story Central
<http://storycentral.savethechildren.org.uk/?c=8308&k=852a773143>  for
latest photos and case studies and read blogs
<http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2011/07/%e2%80%9cthis-drought-has-l
eft-us-destitute-and-the-war-has-taken-what-little-we-had-left-%e2%80%9d/>
on our website. 

 

If you have any questions on the call, contact Dominique Shorten
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> , Emergency Fundraising Manager or
Chiara Ishkanes <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ,Emergency
Fundraising Executive.


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