{"id":79173,"date":"2022-05-20T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T06:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=79173"},"modified":"2022-05-21T23:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:21:55","slug":"demand-for-lifesaving-aid-up-10-per-cent-this-year-un-relief-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/vaufien\/demand-for-lifesaving-aid-up-10-per-cent-this-year-un-relief-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for lifesaving aid up 10 per cent this year: UN relief chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>The number of people in need has risen by around 10 per cent this year so far, the UN\u2019s humanitarian affairs chief said on Thursday. Martin Griffiths, who is also the Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that around 303 million living in 69 countries, were in need of humanitarian aid and protection, compared with 274 million last December &#8211; a statistic which he described to reporters in Geneva, as \u201ca sad record of human suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of people we aim to reach through our response plans, 202 million, is also more than 10 per cent higher than what we projected last December\u201d, said relief chief Griffiths. \u201cAnd the money we need is up from $41 billion to $46 billion today &#8211; five billion dollars more. Donors have so far generously contributed almost $6 billion to our response plans up till now, as recorded by our tracking service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But looking at the raw numbers, he said that with the extra funding, humanitarians had \u201cjust met the rising costs, but barely made a dent in the requirements that we need to address. \u201cThat\u2019s the growing gap problem we are struggling with across the world. It\u2019s real of course it is not just mathematics, and it has consequences for the people we want to help.\u201d No region was more in need, than the 35 million struggling in the Horn of Africa, said Mr. Griffiths, recapping his own mission to Kenya last week. \u201cAfter four failed rainy seasons in the Horn, four in a row, more than 18 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are affected by drought. Most of them hungry, not knowing whether they\u2019ll eat that day or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Sahel region, the situation is similarly dire, he told reporters, with millions driven to \u201cthe fringes of survival.\u201d Up to 18 million people in the Sahel will face severe food insecurity over the next three months, downtrodden by violence, insecurity, deep poverty, failure of basic services and since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, record-high food prices. Almost 1.7 million people will experience emergency levels of food insecurity during the lean season between June and August, creating \u201clarge gaps\u201d in food consumption and high levels of acute malnutrition and deaths. He previewed the UN Secretary-General\u2019s announcement tomorrow, of a $30 million funding package from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/05\/1118632\">The UN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people in need has risen by around 10 per cent this year so far, the UN\u2019s humanitarian affairs chief said on Thursday&#8230;.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11659,12554,34,35],"tags":[1095,15370,383,19266],"class_list":["post-79173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-news","category-vau-viikkokatsaus","category-vauen","category-vaufien","tag-aid","tag-lifesaving","tag-un","tag-up","wpcat-11659-id","wpcat-12554-id","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-35-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kehitysmaa%40changemaker-2.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79228,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79173\/revisions\/79228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}