US Addresses for Direct Famine Relief

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I just received these from a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer group that is soliciting for donations internally. I don't know if they were included in the sticky famine relief thread, but did not want to miss an opportunity to post. Personally, I would rather donate to one of these than any of the "international " efforts:




The Amoud Foundation (www.amoudfoundation.com), based in Irving, Texas, was formed in 1988 by Somali-Americans in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Area. As of August 28th, the Foundation has feeding stations in the worst hit famine areas of southern Somalia: Bay, Bakol, Gedo, Juba, Shebelle, and Mogadishu (where it is supporting the work of Dr. Hawa Abdi, recently written up in Newsweek), and in the camps along the Kenyan-Somali and Ethiopian-Somali borders. In September, the Amoud Foundation plans to provide food and supplies to Somalis in rural areas unable to reach existing feeding centers.

The African Future (www.theafricanfuture.org) was founded in 2007 by a small group of Somali-Americans and Somali-Canadians and is staffed by volunteers in Nairobi. It maintains no offices and therefore has almost no overhead expense. In August TAF mobilised 50 youth volunteers in Nairobi to make its first delivery of 14,000 food baskets--a two-week supply per recipient--and water to Dhoobley, an overwhelmed transit camp on the Somali-Kenyan border. They are now raising funds for an additional 36,000 deliveries, most probably also to Dhoobley, and establishing a temporary wet-feeding center for severely malnourished children and a mobile health clinic there.