admin August 4th, 2011
Advance Aid is delighted to be partnering with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Nairobi to provide African-made goods to supply the refugees streaming into the country as a result of the famine in the Horn of Africa.
Container being packed with jerrycans
We are providing jerrycans to help with the carrying and storage of water and tarpaulins for shelter. Both products are locally-made.
Jerrycans for CRS
This partnership follows on from the one established earlier this year with World Vision.
Tags: CRS, Famine, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Local manufacturing
admin August 2nd, 2011
Sadly for the people suffering in the Horn of Africa, the famine there is destined to become a case history of international inaction in advance of a known disaster, a ‘How not to do it’ of emergency preparation and response. And all of the key players – governments, aid agencies, UN organisations – are already lining up to say that it was not their fault, even before the much-needed aid has really begun to arrive.
The first jolt to the emergency relief system was delivered by the Tsunami at Xmas 2004 when the existing systems were found wanting. In particular, too many organisations turned up to help with little or no coordination. Chaos ensued.
Some progress had been made on this front by the time the earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, but there was still a fair amount of chaos.
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Tags: Al Shabaab, Andrew Mitchell, BBC, DFID, earthquake, Ethiopia, Famine, FEWS, Haiti, Kenya, Mogadishu, Somalia, tsunami, WFP
