Africa's Drought Disaster

Melissa Doyle  visits sponsored child in Kenya - and shares this video report about the fight for survival .. "...it's difficult to understand how desperate the situation really is."

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/26351754/africas-drought-disaster/

UNICEF EMERGENCY SUPPLY FLIGHT

"This is not a famine crisis, a drought crisis... this is a child survival crisis." UNICEF President and CEO, Caryl Stern. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge helped pack a shipment of emergency medial supplies at a UNICEF emergency supply center in Copenhagen to help "...perhaps put the light back on this crisis."  Despite having so little the people here celebrate what they do have... 

http://fieldnotes.unicefusa.org/2011/11/nightline.html

There's a Drought: Helping Africa One Song at a Time

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Somalia's Agony Tests Limits of Aid

“Americans are incredibly generous when they understand that children are in desperate need,” said Carolyn Miles, president of Save the Children. “If they knew millions of children were facing death in East Africa, I believe they would give. But I don't think Americans understand the scale of this disaster.”
NEW YORK TIMES Nov 1, 2011