Response to the Horn of Africa emergency

The massive international response to the child survival crisis in the Horn of Africa has already shown some positive results, but much more needs to be done to save hundreds of thousands of children at risk of dying from malnutrition and disease, according to the UNICEF three-month progress report titled, Response to the Horn of Africa Emergency.

in the past three months, UNICEF and partners across the Horn have achieved important results on which to build, including:

Almost 10,000 metric tonnes of life-saving UNICEF supplies delivered to the Horn of Africa by air, land and sea routes,
108,000 severely malnourished children treated through therapeutic feeding centres,
1.2 million children vaccinated against measles,
2.2 million people provided with access to safe water and
48,000 children with access to child-friendly spaces or other safe environments.

Feeding programs in Ethiopia

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Hawa was pregnant when she left Somalia, walking for weeks to reach Kenya.

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

UNICEF is supporting drought and famine-affected refugees in Dadaab, Kenya

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Somali mothers await life-saving aid in Dadaab, Kenya

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Families receive bed nets to protect against malaria

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Children are the most vulnerable with the Horn of Africa emergency

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Somali families queue for aid at the Ifo camp near the Kenya-Somalia border

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Child Protection in the Kenyan refugee camps

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Malnourished children in the Horn of Africa are susceptible to killer diseases

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Somali girls find refuge in Dadaab, Kenya

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

The Dagahaley camp is part of the Dadaab refugee camps - the largest in the worl

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

UNICEF is delivering help for families in the Horn of Africa

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

A children's famine

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Children in the Horn of Africa

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Famine in Somalia

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Conflict in Somalia

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Living in tents in a refugee camp in Somalia

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Caring for children

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Providing for families in Somalia

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Trek for food and shelter at the Dadaab refugee camp

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Ansell receives therapeutic food at a feeding centre in Dadaab, Kenya

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Dust storms near Dadaab

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

This is more than a food crisis; this is a crisis for child survival

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Seyanae tends his family’s few surviving goats in drought-affected Kenya

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Malnutrition at critical levels

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Kenyan villagers affected by drought

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Assisting children affected by drought and high food prices in Kenya

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

A man carries his sick daughter to an outpatient clinic in Mogidishu, Somalia

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Montegbosh collects water with her son Zerihun. Drought has left them hungry.

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Plumpy'Nut delivered to malnourished children in Ethiopia

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Supporting community health practices in Ethiopia

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Kenyan health workers screen for malnutrition

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Women queue for food at a nutrition stabilization centre

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Young Firdoze is measured for malnutrition

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Health extension workers help mother Berida Jateni

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Berida Jateni feeds her daughter therapeutic food

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

Abdile holds his son, Aden, while he sleeps at a stabilisation centre in Kenya.

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.

©UNICEF/Kenya/2011/Tidey - Abdile holds his son Aden’s hand while the latter sle

UNICEF is providing life-saving aid to children and families affected by drought, rising food prices and ongoing conflict across the Horn of Africa.