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DEC raises £26m as 2022 signals ‘unfolding catastrophe’ in Afghanistan
Just two weeks after launching an emergency appeal for Afghanistan on 15 December, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has now raised £26m for the millions of people suffering in Afghanistan, as they face a desperate and freezing start to 2022. It is currently estimated that over 8 million people are on the brink of famine, with 1 million children under the age of five at risk of dying over the next three months.
DEC launches Afghanistan Crisis Appeal
Leading aid workers yesterday sounded the alarm to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan and said there was a ‘small window of opportunity’ to respond before the freezing winter sets in.
Action Against Hunger responds to UK commitment at Nutrition for Growth summit
The UK's contribution to tackling malnutrition at the summit fell far short of expectations.
World leaders urged to halt escalating hunger crisis as 17% more people expected to need life-saving aid in 2022
Action Against Hunger UK joined organisations in an open letter calling on world leaders to fully fund a $41 billion humanitarian hunger response to prevent famine globally and address the emergencies fuelling global hunger: conflict, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.
British parents fear for their children's future because of climate change
More than two out of three British parents believe that climate change poses a threat to their children’s future.
Over 200 restaurants join Action Against Hunger's Love Food Give Food campaign on its tenth anniversary
What can £1 on your restaurant bill cover? Olives? A bread roll? Or a day's worth of live-saving therapeutic food to treat a severely malnourished child.
Haiti earthquake leaves thousands in need
Action Against Hunger is mounting a response to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Haiti on Saturday 14 August 2021 and Tropical Storm Grace, which followed.
UK Government set to cut malnutrition programmes by 80% leaving tens of thousands of children hungry and at risk of starvation
Save the Children and Action Against Hunger urge the UK to reverse these cuts without delay.
Response to UK Aid cut to Syria
The UK Government has cut aid to Syria, which recently marked ten years of conflict, by almost a third.
After ten years of conflict, 60% of Syria's population struggles to feed themselves
Communities are still in need of urgent humanitarian assistance a decade on from the start of the conflict in the country.
Action Against Hunger warns of potential food emergency as violence rocks the Central African Republic
A wave of violence has broken out across the Central African Republic following disputed elections on 27 December 2020.