“We're appealing to donors to come through very quickly now with additional resources, because floods are not something that we can work on a few weeks later when bureaucracies are done making decisions ... we have to help people today.”
“They'll die because of the lack of food, the lack of sanitation and the lack of water and of the diseases ... as a result of the fighting in the region.”
“The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.”
“More and more people are at risk because the rains have not come. We will be coming back in the next few weeks with additional requests. We do not know how much more will be requested, it needs to be further assessed ... but I expect it will be more than 100,000 tons.”
“The drips were very crude, almost like water bottles with plastic tubing coming out. We saw other children who had marks on their faces from various stages of malnutrition. These children were in very bad shape.”
“The drips were very crude, almost like water bottles with plastic tubing coming out. We saw other children who had marks on their faces from various stages of malnutrition. These children were in very bad shape.”
