{"id":3864,"date":"2017-08-23T16:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2017-08-23T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:18:53","slug":"food-insecurity-leaves-8-5-million-people-in-need-of-urgent-assistance-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/food-insecurity-leaves-8-5-million-people-in-need-of-urgent-assistance-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Insecurity Leaves 8.5 Million People In Need Of Urgent Assistance In Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prolonged drought and increasing food insecurity in Ethiopia has resulted in internal displacement, particularly in the Afar region which borders Somalia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>In Ethiopia, 8.5 million people are currently food insecure and require urgent assistance.<\/p>\n<p>In the last three months alone this number has increased dramatically from 7.8 million as the situation worsens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>376,000 children aged five or under are severely malnourished.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An acute lack of food and water across the region has led to people fleeing their homes in search of survival.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic Relief Ethiopia is one of just a few agencies able to access the Afar Zone in the Somali region, which is amongst the worst affected areas in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Our teams on the ground have carried out a rapid needs assessment at a camp where 3,000 families are in need of urgent immediate assistance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Emergency provisions such as water, food, shelter and hygiene kits have been identified as the most urgent needs.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic Relief UK, alongside the wider Islamic Relief family, is supporting an integrated response which will aim to meet the immediate needs of these families.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Please donate towards our East Africa Crisis Appeal and help us save lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_separator_no_text vc_sep_color_grey\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolonged drought and increasing food insecurity in Ethiopia has resulted in internal displacement, particularly in the Afar region which borders Somalia. In Ethiopia, 8.5 million people are currently food insecure and require urgent assistance. In the last three months alone this number has increased dramatically from 7.8 million as the situation worsens. &nbsp; 376,000 children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}