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- According to U.N. and private relief officials, efforts to supply enough food to stem the simultaneous crises in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria are falling tragically short so far, in part because of inadequate funding from governments and private donors. Of the $4.9 billion sought in February by the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for immediate needs in those countries, just 39 percent had been donated as of last week.
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johnnyFive · 2468 days ago · link ·
That's good (even if I hate PayPal), but the problem is less medicine and more food. And even then, a lot of the money is there, but the U.S. literally can't get its act together enough to actually get it where it needs to go. (For real; Congress upped the food aid provision in the last budget, but Trump hasn't gotten around to appointing the people who could actually get it where it needs to go.)