Ethiopia drought and food insecurity update

CARE Ethiopia is currently responding to the drought and food insecurity emergency in the regions of Afar and Oromia (Borena, East and West Hararghe), which are the most affected areas in the country. The on-going humanitarian interventions focus on food aid; on water and sanitation such as water trucking, distribution of water treatment chemicals and water points rehabilitation, hygiene awareness; assistance for livestock such as animal feeding and local capacity building and awareness.

To date, CARE Ethiopia has reached more than 125,000 people through the on-going response and is currently scaling up its response to address critical needs in nutrition and livelihoods protection. CARE Ethiopia is also actively preparing for floods that are very likely to affect the Northern part of the country later this year.

• So far, only 36 % of the drought/food insecurity (regional) appeal has been funded and donors have expressed interest in increasing their allocations to the region 
• In Ethiopia, drought in the South and South East part of the country has exposed 2.5 million people to acute food insecurity.

More needs to be done, you can help at http://care.ca !

Cote D'Ivoire update...

Our CARE staff in Cote d'Ivoire are reporting that security is improving despite pockets of resistance and instability in the West and in Abidjan (Yopougon). Banks are re-opening, so salary payments to civil servants has resumed in Abidjan and in other cities. The CARE rapid assessment in the West revealed urgent needs in shelter, hygiene kits and early recovery supports for returnees and existing IDPs. CARE has distributed water purification kits to IDPs in Dukoué and continues ensuring garbage collection in Dukoué, Man and Bouaké.