This year Hands at Work faces an extreme drought crisis in Africa

It has gripped a huge part of the population, specifically those described as ‘the poorest of the poor’ in a way that is unprecedented in human memory. 

A million children right now face dire consequences because of hunger, sickness, and lack of water. Within these people exists a layer – vulnerable children and grandmothers – who will not survive unless there is an intervention.

South Africa, Swaziland, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the south of Zambia have been hardest hit, directly impacted by a severe lack of rainfall. However, all of our countries – including further north in Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria, are suffering from escalated food prices and limited availability of staple foods (in Malawi, for example, staple foods like maize have risen by 73%). 

Hands at Work is engaged in a very real crisis which is estimated to continue for at least the next 18 months.