Dr. Bukar Ali USMAN, mni | CEO & Founder Sril Group Ltd; Advocating for Invest in Agriculture: #ZeroHunger, #ZeroMalnutrition &
Description: Worldwide relief funded by a Buddhist organization
By Charles Elliott
Mumina Afyarow is a 29-year-old widow and mother of three. Because of malnutrition, she has no milk left to breastfeed her infant daughter. The drought killed her beloved donkey and goats, which were her family’s only source of income and food. So, Mumina left her village of Garasweyn and walked eleven miles with her children on her back to a displacement camp. But the camp doesn’t have enough basic supplies to care for everyone, so Mumina sold the only bucket she had for $1.50 to buy food. (Action Against
This sorrowful story, like a thousand others, emerges from the Horn of Africa as it faces its worst drought in forty years. In the past three years, this region has suffered five failed rainy seasons, and meteorologists predict a sixth in the coming months. Climate change is likely influencing these conditions. Across the region, more than 36 million people are threatened by the drought, with its predictable catastrophic consequences: the death of 9.5 million livestock, the drying up of the wells upon which
Dr. Bukar Ali USMAN, mni | CEO & Founder Sril Group Ltd; Advocating for Invest in Agriculture: #ZeroHunger, #ZeroMalnutrition &