Our Plan for Action

We are currently working on establishing an annual food and fund drive at our school to help alleviate hunger in our local community and in the most needed areas of the world.

Through research and discussion, our class has decided this year we will be helping children locally through Food for Santa Fe and children in Somalia through the World Food Programme organization.

Somalia is struggling to cope with a break in it’s food pipeline, due to lack of contributions and the almost total failure of rains in the southern and parts of the northern regions.  ...The World Food Programme today warned that hundreds of thousands of poor Somalians face starvation in a few months if the agency does not get the resources it needs to continue an emergency operation.

...WFP needs 20,000 tons of food (for a value of approximately $14 million) to maintain its life-saving activities until the end of next year. .10 years of protracted civil unrest and natural disasters (including flood and drought) have caused crop failures and continue to threaten Somalia's ability to feed itself. Much of Somalia's material resources have been destroyed, thereby eroding the coping mechanisms of the population.

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