East Africa Hunger Relief Fund

Thank you for your generous contribution to the East Africa Hunger Relief Fund. Your donations continue to make a difference, ensuring communities have access to food, water, sustainable livelihoods, and urgent assistance across the Horn of Africa.

Since we last updated you, your contribution to the fund supported five grants to high-impact, vetted partners across Ethiopia and South Sudan. These resources were essential, as our partners faced the dual challenges of addressing ongoing humanitarian crises in their countries while also responding to sudden-onset disasters, such as mass flooding. 

With this context in mind, here is a short description of some of the critical work you’ve supported: 

• All My Sisters Around the World for Peace offers livelihood and skills training for single female-headed households in Tigray, while also addressing general food insecurity by providing 10 quintals of flour to schoolchildren in Shire. As a women-led organization, All My Sisters emphasizes peacebuilding through both emergency aid and gender-responsive initiatives.

• People's Initiative Development Organization (PIDO) distributes blankets, utensils, soaps, and mosquito nets to around 3,000 vulnerable households in Mayom County, Unity State, where floods have displaced tens of thousands of residents. The focus will be on those most affected, such as children and the elderly, recognizing that all communities in South Sudan who have been forced to move are at greater risk of hunger and hardship.

Your support of the GlobalGiving East Africa Hunger Relief Fund powers community-led responses to challenges both urgent and chronic—and along the way offers hope that together a better future is possible. 

As South Sudan Grassroots Initiative for Development’s project leader, Romano, shared: 

“Thank you once again for standing with us in this critical time. Your support not only strengthens our ability to respond but also brings hope and resilience to the affected communities we serve.”

Together with our partners, we sincerely thank you once again for your continued solidarity.

With gratitude, 

Kyra + the GlobalGiving Team

Thank you for your generous contribution to the East Africa Hunger Relief Fund. Your donations continue to make a difference, ensuring communities have access to food, water, sustainable livelihoods, and urgent assistance across the region, including in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan.

Since we last updated you, your contribution to the fund supported seven grants to high-impact, vetted partners. We met many of these partners when we visited Ethiopia and Kenya a few months ago. They reminded us that climate change continues to make conditions worse for their communities and drives up food insecurity and displacement. 

 They shared how important it is to incorporate and prioritize peacebuilding even when confronting active conflict. With nearly 64 million people needing humanitarian and protection assistance across the Horn of Africa, our partners are stepping up to fill gaps, thanks to your support. 

With this context in mind, here is a short description of some of the critical work you’ve supported:  

• Ethiopian Center for Disability & Development (ECDD) is an Ethiopian-led organization serving people with disabilities. In Ethiopia, 15.8 million people are facing crisis or emergency levels of hunger with the UN warning of famine-like conditions on the horizon. ECDD provides forcibly displaced people from conflict-affected areas, like Tigray and Amhara, with food, cash assistance, and longer-term livelihood opportunities that enable them to be self-sufficient. To support security and well-being for all, the organization works with families of the disabled and host communities receiving displaced people so inter-communal tensions do not arise. 
• Centre for Peace and Democracy (CPD) is a Somali nonprofit focusing on peacebuilding, food security, livelihoods, and development. In coordination with other actors, CDP is addressing the needs of thousands of displaced Somalis driven from their homes by conflict and from the severe floods in the fall of 2023. CPD provides several services, from food and medical aid to coordination among first responders to assist communities in emergencies.
• Water for South Sudan (WFSS)  was created by former “Lost Boys of Sudan” who escaped conflict on foot during Sudan’s civil war in the early 2000s. Based in New York, the organization focuses on creating sustainable water systems for rural communities across South Sudan. The WFSS team continues to respond to local requests to rehabilitate wells while training community members on well maintenance and hygiene so families can prosper. With the influx of refugees from the war in Sudan, WFSS is now also coordinating with the UN to construct latrines and wells in new refugee camps and is conducting nutrition screenings for malnourished children. With extreme heat across the country causing school closures and power cuts, access to safe, sustainable water is more important than ever.

Your support of the GlobalGiving East Africa Hunger Relief Fund powers community-led responses to urgent and chronic challenges, and it means our partners get the critical resources they need as they continue to face extreme climates—from droughts to floods —with no immediate end in sight. 

Thank you—we cannot say it enough.

With gratitude, 

Kyra + Sarah + the GlobalGiving Team

Nonprofit Partners Receiving Grants:

• Abraham’s Oasis (AO)
• Centre for Peace and Democracy (CPD)
• Community Focus Group
• Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development
• Meseret Humanitarian Organization (MHO)
• People’s Initiative for Development Organization (PIDO)
• Water for South Sudan (WFSS)