Our programmes here help communities adapt to climate change.
Climate change has a huge impact here, with recurring droughts and flooding having a devastating effect on harvests. A swarm of locusts is also surging through the region, with communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda fighting to save their crops from locusts devouring entire fields.
In recent decades peace and stability has enabled economic growth, but despite progress malnutrition is still common.
Extreme weather patterns, locust swarms and epidemics have increased the humanitarian need in the country.
We work to improve the East African country’s healthcare system and provide life-saving nutrition programmes.
One of the world's poorest countries, three-quarters of the population lives on less than £1.50 a day.
Somalia is experiencing a prolonged and complex crisis characterised by conflict, displacement, drought and disease.
Home to over a million refugees from neighbouring countries, Uganda continues to struggle with slow economic growth.
High rates of malnutrition, alarming numbers of HIV and AIDS cases and frequent cholera outbreaks are huge humanitarian challenges.
