An evangelical relief worker says there are ‘devastating’ sights in East Africa right now as 22 million people experience acute hunger.
Elizabeth Myendo, Disaster Management Lead for Tearfund in East and Southern Africa, says: ‘I have just returned from Uganda and what I saw there was devastating. We saw elderly people collapsed by the roadside, too weak from hunger to stand, or even speak. Children who are not even able to sit up. They haven’t eaten a proper meal in weeks, they are foraging for dried weeds just to survive.
Starving to death
‘Across East Africa – specifically Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya – at least 22 million people are experiencing acute hunger. This means they just don’t have enough to eat every day and many are on the brink of famine, some are already starving to death.
