{"id":74716,"date":"2020-12-15T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?post_type=media-center&#038;p=74716"},"modified":"2020-12-15T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:24:14","slug":"world-vision-mobilizing-for-a-historic-humanitarian-response-in-ethiopias-tigray-region","status":"publish","type":"media-center","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/about-us\/media-center\/world-vision-mobilizing-for-a-historic-humanitarian-response-in-ethiopias-tigray-region","title":{"rendered":"World Vision mobilizing for a historic humanitarian response in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-push-8&Prime;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-highlights field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<ul>\n<li>Agency among first to respond to the crisis<\/li>\n<li>Mobilized $1.5 million to provide emergency shelter, health, WASH and protection supplies<\/li>\n<li>Appealing for additional $10 million in funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;2\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-pull-4&Prime;][vc_single_image image=&rdquo;74717&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo; add_caption=&rdquo;yes&rdquo; alignment=&rdquo;center&rdquo;][vc_column_text]<strong>(December 15, 2020) &mdash;<\/strong>Christian humanitarian organization,&nbsp;World Vision,&nbsp;has&nbsp;appealed&nbsp;to donors for $10 million in additional funding, as it launched its humanitarian&nbsp;response&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;crisis in the&nbsp;conflict-affected&nbsp;Tigray region of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The aid agency is one of&nbsp;the first&nbsp;NGOs&nbsp;to respond with assessments and assistance.&nbsp;On&nbsp;December 9,&nbsp;World Vision staff&nbsp;delivered $12,000 worth of sanitary medical supplies to&nbsp;Alamata&nbsp;Hospital; an infirmary&nbsp;that&nbsp;has recently become&nbsp;overwhelmed with patients&nbsp;of severe malnutrition, malaria, and water borne diseases.&nbsp;&nbsp;According to&nbsp;World Vision staff,&nbsp;the hospital has run out of medical supplies,&nbsp;is&nbsp;understaffed,&nbsp;and has had&nbsp;no ability to pay salaries or provide&nbsp;for their medical personnel, many of whom fled north to&nbsp;Mekele.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a heartbreaking situation,&rdquo; says&nbsp;Edward Brown, World Vision&rsquo;s national director in Ethiopia. &ldquo;Not only&nbsp;are thousands of children&nbsp;severely impacted by this crisis without electricity, water, and food&nbsp;for&nbsp;over a month, but our&nbsp;own staff&nbsp;and families&nbsp;are in the same boat.&rdquo;&nbsp;World Vision has also&nbsp;sent food, medical supplies, and care packages to its own staff suffering due to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>World Vision&nbsp;has&nbsp;mobilized&nbsp;$1.5 million to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;emergency shelter, health, WASH, and protection supplies.&nbsp;World Vision has been among the first agencies to respond with assessments and assistance in a few areas that are safe and accessible and has appealed to donors for $10 million in additional funding.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing desert locust&nbsp;and&nbsp;army worm&nbsp;plagues, erratic rainfall resulting&nbsp;in&nbsp;localized&nbsp;flooding and drought, compounded by&nbsp;displacement&nbsp;of over 3 million people&nbsp;due to ethnic violence in recent years,&nbsp;Ethiopia faces a new crisis: war.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNOCHA&rsquo;s report on December 7, 2020, nearly 50,000 refugees&nbsp;have fled to&nbsp;Sudan&nbsp;in the wake of the intense military conflict,&nbsp;destruction of infrastructure,&nbsp;and&nbsp;internal&nbsp;dislocation of potentially hundreds of thousands of&nbsp;civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank God, Ethiopia has done remarkably well this year in mitigating against the spread of the&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;and overcoming other daunting challenges, but the Tigray crisis poses the biggest threat of all,&rdquo; said Brown.&nbsp;&ldquo;2020 has&nbsp;presented&nbsp;one crisis after another. The purpose of our response is to&nbsp;prevent further destruction and death,&nbsp;and&nbsp;to&nbsp;contribute towards a sustainable and just peace.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and the United&nbsp;Nations&nbsp;signed an agreement on November 28 including unimpeded, sustained and secure access for humanitarian personnel and services to vulnerable populations&nbsp;in&nbsp;GoE-administered areas of Tigray.&nbsp;However, the implementation of that agreement has yet to be fully&nbsp;realized&nbsp;as there continues to be&nbsp;insecurity&nbsp;and other&nbsp;challenges.&nbsp;UNICEF estimates that 2.3 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;World&nbsp;Vision Ethiopia&nbsp;asks for your prayers and support&nbsp;at&nbsp;this difficult and challenging time,&nbsp;as we accompany the children of Ethiopia during the crisis,&rdquo;&nbsp;adds Brown.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>About <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/03\/www.worldvision.org\"><strong>World Vision<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong><br>\nWorld Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization conducting relief, development, and advocacy activities in its work with children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries to help them reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. 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