Crisis In Ethiopia
What is happening in Ethiopia?
The current situation in Ethiopia is dire. A combination of drought, displacement, and brutal conflict has left huge areas of the country in crisis. The Tigray region, where Mary’s Meals works, is one of the worst affected. Having lived through the atrocities of the Tigray war, millions of Ethiopians are now facing emergency levels of food insecurity and hunger. The war has undone years of progress in Tigray’s education system. For now, there is an urgent dual priority – ensuring that children in Tigray have food and boosting their chances of engaging with education again.
Mary's Meals in Tigray, Ethiopia
In recent months, many children have been able to return to school. Working with our dedicated local partner, we have now fully reinstated the Mary’s Meals school feeding programme across Tigray, which is a lifeline to children living in poverty in these challenging days.
School is important because I play with others and learn, and it helps me leave the worries I have at home behind because my mother has no food for me. Mahlet, 12, from Ethiopia
Crisis in Ethiopia emergency appeal
Our partner is ready and waiting to extend the programme to more schools, in areas of great need across the region. We will work together to reach as many more children as possible with daily meals in school over the coming weeks and months.
Donate to help Ethiopia
The situation is serious. But there is something you can do. You can provide these desperate children with food, education and hope of a brighter future. Please donate what you can today.
Action For Ethiopia
Let’s raise our voices to make the world take notice of what’s happening in Ethiopia.
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Have you heard about what's happening in Ethiopia? Conflict, drought and displacement mean that 4.5 million people in Tigray urgently need emergency food aid. I’m standing with the charity Mary’s Meals to raise awareness of the situation. We have a chance to stop this crisis before it spirals out of control.
Please share this message. If we all speak up, we can give a voice to those who are hungry.
Find out more: https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/
Find out more about our work in Ethiopia
Crisis In Ethiopia: An urgent update
Mary’s Meals’ Founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow has just returned from the Tigray region where he met children, families and communities who are desperate for the world to take notice.
In our recent online event we heard from Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow and colleague Shona Shea about the people they met, the need in the region and the ways that Mary’s Meals hopes to urgently expand our programme.
Facts that make grown men cry in the dark - a reflection from Ethiopia
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Founder of Mary's Meals, reflects on his recent visit to the Tigray region of Ethiopia
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