James Morris
James Morris
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We will urgently need more help in the next 10 days because it takes time to buy, ship and distribute food. It is not something you can do overnight.
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If you help a little girl go to school for five years in Malawi everything about her life changes for the better. She's a better mum, she's a better citizen, a better teacher, a better farmer.
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We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.
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We need six, seven, eight times as much help as we have already had for the next 12 months. If there's a break in the pipeline, the shock and the lack of water for those millions of people who are now seriously at risk will mean we will start to see large numbers of casualties very, very quickly.
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It's still early but if current predictions prove correct, then Malawi may have more food at its disposal this year than in previous years.
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They will die off the beaten track that the world is not focussed on. And it is a very tough challenge for us to raise the resources.
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The truth of it is, I'm excited about this. We need this growth.
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And with forecasters suggesting that the April rains will also be poor, the number of families needing assistance could grow in the coming months. Without adequate emergency food aid, we fear for the worst.
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Ethiopia, the whole Horn of Africa is a very vulnerable part of the world.
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The world has not appreciated in the last 60 days how serious this situation is... we are now in a crisis. We are in a life-saving mode.
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This is a measure we should simply never have to take. Our donors were really supportive in 2005 -- they cannot be less so in 2006.
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This is a measure we should simply never have to take.
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Debt relief means very little to a starving child who needs food now
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Other humanitarian agencies in southern Somalia face the enormous challenge of reaching drought victims in remote and insecure areas. We urge leaders and rival militia to set aside their differences and guarantee safe passage (of food aid) to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.