Connecticut Famine Relief Makes Its Way To Somalia

Connecticut Public Radio | By Lucy Nalpathanchil

Published August 12, 2011 at 3:54 PM EDT

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The famine in the Horn of Africa is getting worse by the day.

Somalia is suffering deeply from the 3 year drought with more than 3.5 million Somalis facing starvation.

An estimated 600,000 of the starving are children.

Disaster relief organization, AmeriCares - based in Stamford, CT - recently shipped emergency aid to Somalia. Inside the shipment are enough medical supplies to care for roughly 15,000 people.

WNPR’s Lucy Nalpathanchil spoke with Ella Gudwin, AmeriCares's vice president of emergency response.

Gudwin says the shipment is scheduled to arrive in Mogadishu on Monday, Aug 15.

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