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This is an urgent call for help.

A new Oxfam report shows that COVID-19 is impacting more than physical health – due to the slowdown of the global economy, the hunger crisis is deepening in existing hotspots and creating new epicenters of hunger across the globe. By the end of the year, 12,000 people per day are at risk of dying from COVID-19 linked hunger – potentially more than the disease itself.

Oxfam is on the ground in more than 60 countries helping communities struggling with COVID-19 directly with handwashing supplies and other aid, and helping those struggling with hunger, like through providing seeds in Afghanistan, cash transfers in Venezuela, and food rations in India.

This pandemic is the final straw for the millions already struggling with conflict, climate change, inequality, and a broken food system. We need your help to ramp up our efforts to help in this hunger crisis and stand up for those living in poverty worldwide.

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"Poverty is another disease," said one Afghani woman we talked with recently, "it is as dangerous as this virus and if people continue staying home this way, a lot of families could die because of hunger."

Mass unemployment as people have been unable to leave their homes, travel restrictions prohibiting farmers from accessing markets to sell their produce, and existing inequalities made worse during the pandemic are contributing to the hunger crisis.

With the help of the Oxfam community, we've identified ten extreme hunger hotspots, like Yemen, where two-thirds of the population is hungry, as well as emerging hotspots like South Africa, where one in three adults said they were going to bed hungry.

We're tailoring our response across the globe to this hunger crisis based on what each community needs most. But responding to this hunger crisis, as well as keeping up our work supporting families worldwide is only possible with the support of the Oxfam community.

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Thank you for standing with us.

Sincerely,

Abby Maxman
President
Oxfam America