£11,000 raised for Kenya crisis
Thursday 28th July 2011, 4:14PM BST.
Malnourished children from southern Somalia in hospital in Mogadishu
ISLANDERS have raised more than £11,000 for the British Red Cross East Africa Food Crisis Appeal.
Severe droughts have devastated the area, with Somalia and Kenya two of the worst countries hit, and millions of people are thought to have been affected.
People in Jersey have responded generously to the campaign, launched earlier this month, with more than £1,500 collected at Marks & Spencer in just one day.
Andrew Baudains, the chairman of the Jersey fundraising committee, thanked Islanders for their support but said that more money was needed. ‘To date we have raised more than £11,000 in Jersey for the East Africa Food Crisis and we are keen to continue raising funds, as the need for money becomes more and more urgent,’ he said.
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Somali and Kenyan governments are completely corrupt. It is their job to look after their own people.
Whilst £11000 is a very generous amount it will do nothing really and I question whether it will ever get to those that need it.
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1 – Totally agree. Famine will never to stopped whilst the populations of both countries continue to rise so rapidly.
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#2 Tax Payer – the cause of the famine in Somalia is due to successive failed rains and rising food prices – not population rise. Years of civil war has exasperated the problem.
To those Jersey people who bemoan giving charity to others in need – just go down to the Underground hospital and read up on Red Cross food parcels given to islanders during the last war.
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