*[Enwl-eng] Hunger
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Sun Mar 14 19:49:33 MSK 2021
Dear friends, Starving children don't cry.Their tiny bodies can't waste
energy on tears. Instead they use every last calorie to keep their organs
pumping.But for 4-year old Abdo Sayid, who weighed only 14 pounds, that
became too much.Like roughly 85,000 other children in Yemen, he starved to
death, unable to get enough food or medical care during the devastating
civil war. Half of all medical facilities have been destroyed or forced to
close, and 80% of the population needs urgent humanitarian aid -- including
12 million children.12 million children.The situation is critical. But while
we can't suddenly end the whole war, we can do something -- and it could
save lives.Even as the bombs keep falling, aid workers and brave local
volunteers are going all out to provide for everyone they can -- setting up
hospitals, delivering emergency food aid, and life-saving surgery on the
very frontlines of a most brutal war. But their budgets just don't stretch
far enough, and they need our help.So right now, wherever you are in the
world, this is a chance to help them save lives -- to help fund these
hospitals, provide that emergency care, and feed hundreds of children too
weak to cry. Every cent you give will go to this emergency response -- so
donate what you can now:
Dear friends,
Starving children don't cry.
Their tiny bodies can't waste energy on
tears. Instead they use every last calorie to keep their organs pumping.
But for 4-year old Abdo Sayid, who weighed
only 14 pounds, that became too much.
Like roughly 85,000 other children in Yemen,
he starved to death, unable to get enough food or medical care during the
devastating civil war. Half of all medical facilities have been destroyed or
forced to close, and 80% of the population needs urgent humanitarian aid --
including 12 million children.
12 million children.
The situation is critical. But while we
can't suddenly end the whole war, we can do something -- and it could save
lives.
Even as the bombs keep falling, aid workers
and brave local volunteers are going all out to provide for everyone they
can -- setting up hospitals, delivering emergency food aid, and life-saving
surgery on the very frontlines of a most brutal war. But their budgets just
don't stretch far enough, and they need our help.
So right now, wherever you are in the world,
this is a chance to help them save lives -- to help fund these hospitals,
provide that emergency care, and feed hundreds of children too weak to cry.
Every cent you give will go to this emergency response -- so donate what you
can now:
I'LL DONATE $2
I'LL DONATE $3
I'LL DONATE $4
I'LL DONATE $5
I'LL DONATE $8
OTHER AMOUNT
Yemen's war is complicated -- but the
suffering is deadly simple. A vicious armed conflict of landmines and
airstrikes has devastated the population, triggering a humanitarian crisis
like no other.
Yet while international government aid is
dismally low, there are signs of hope. US president Biden is taking steps
that could accelerate critical funding and fuel global efforts to end the
war -- but it could come too late for many. We need an emergency response,
now.
As of December, 100,000 children under the
age of five are so severely malnourished that they could die if they do not
receive urgent treatment.
Medics, volunteers, and humanitarian groups
are trying to fill the gaps -- but they just don't have enough. We can help
them do more, and if we all chip in now, we could:
a.. Help fund critical medical facilities in
devastated areas of Yemen;
b.. Provide life-saving food aid for
thousands of desperate families;
c.. Ensure thousands of people have access
to critical medicines and pay for a fleet of ambulances;
d.. Fund mobile clinics and power medical
centres with emergency generators.
For just $2 we could help feed a child like
Abdo for another day. It's heartbreaking that a child's life could hang on
such a delicate thread; that's simply how dire the situation has become. But
right now I can promise you that every single dollar we raise will be used
to help save lives -- donate what you can now:
I'LL DONATE $2
I'LL DONATE $3
I'LL DONATE $4
I'LL DONATE $5
I'LL DONATE $8
OTHER AMOUNT
From Myanmar to the Amazon, India, South
Africa, and Pakistan, our movement has risen time and again in the face of
human suffering. We don't look away -- because around the world, we are all
united by a simple, beautiful belief: that no matter where you live, who you
love, or how you pray, every human life is precious.
This is our chance to affirm that belief
again, with endless hope and determination.
Mike, Marigona, Alis, Will, Christoph and
the whole team at Avaaz
* Note: The photograph above is not of Abdo
referenced in the text. It is of another Yemeni child, also battling
malnutrition at a hospital in the district of Aslam in the northwestern
Hajjah province
More information:
At a Yemen hospital racked by U.S. funding
cuts, children are dying of hunger (Washington Post)
UN: Over 2 million Yemeni children may
starve in 2021 (Associated Press)
Ten years after the Arab spring, Yemen has
little hope left (The Guardian)
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Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2021 12:04 PM
Subject: Hunger
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