ROME – “In Ethiopia, out of a population of 110 million, 29 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and 5.9 million are displaced due to the worst
drought in 40 years and localized conflicts,” Save the Children said as part of the “Impossible 2022” event, announcing the cash and voucher assistance program, which aims to support local families and thus “prevent them from having to spend their meager livelihoods exclusively on food, at the expense of other priorities, such as education, family and child health.” Save the Children’s pilot project aims to “ensure adequate nutrition for more than 15,000 children and food security and livelihoods for 5,200 families, a total of about 26,000 people.” “The drought in Ethiopia,” adds Save the Children, “is the third in the same decade and the worst in the last 20 years, and follows the scarcity of rains for three consecutive seasons,” causing, since the beginning of the year, “the death of 987,000 livestock.