They are facing a deadly cocktail of conflict, climate change and the crushing aftershocks of COVID It robs children of their childhood, denying them the opportunity to achieve their God-given potential. It is estimated that more than , people in East Africa are under catastrophic famine-conditions, marked by critical acute malnutrition, starvation, destitution and death.
Additionally, almost 7 million people are one step away from famine, and as many as 26 million require urgent action to prevent them sliding into the same acute situation.
The East Africa region has endured substantial and widespread breeding of desert locusts since late , resulting in loss of pasture and crops.
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Not a Gates Notes Insider yet? LOG IN. According to Lubaale, the Organization of African Instituted Churches has been pushing for the integration of agriculture in the interventions against the virus. We continue to engage the churches to make sure it is part of their response. In a congregation-based approach, the organization is working with farmers in local churches to improve farm yields, manage seeds and increase agricultural investments.
Community seed banks, which ensure an uninterrupted access to seeds in planting seasons for the farmers is a major project of the organization. So that it remains sustainable, a farmer returns a certain amount of seeds to the bank after each harvest. The organization is also educating the farmers on the link between agriculture and nutrition, managing post-harvest losses and participating effectively in the markets. They would try beating him or putting on thumb screws or torturing him in some way in order to break him and make him eat; or they would force-feed him by forcing open his jaws and forcing food into him.
The idea, I think, was that a slave cannot be allowed to die by his own will and intention. He cannot be allowed to die voluntarily. If he's going to die, it must be at the hands of his captors, so that One has to remember that this was all down to profit.
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