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Friend,
We have one more day left before our fundraising deadline to hit our goal: Your gift today will match the gifts from our Matching Gift Challenge Fund contributors, up to $60,000, helping Mercy Corps make an even greater difference for the people and communities with whom we partner. As the world faces the largest global hunger crisis we’ve seen in decades, your support could help meet immediate needs, and build long-term solutions to poverty and hunger. Please read yesterday’s email from Craig below, and then, if you can, help power our work with a gift today. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Craig @ Mercy Corps <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 11:09 AM Subject: Hunger is soaring... |
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Dear Friend, In Yemen, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and many of the other places where Mercy Corps works, hunger is soaring. Currently, over 34 million people are experiencing acute levels of hunger, and that number is expected to increase this year. Mercy Corps team members around the world are working to address the root causes of hunger, and as our Senior Vice President of Programs, I am continuously inspired by their determination, intelligence, and heart. I’m also inspired by supporters like you, who help fuel our work. We’ve set a goal to raise $60,000 and we have just two days left to meet this goal. Now is an especially good time to give, because a group of generous donors has contributed to our Matching Gift Challenge Fund to encourage supporters like you to match their gifts. Your matching gift today joins those gifts, and together can make an even greater difference in our work to help communities facing hunger, violent conflict, COVID-19, and more. 
The ongoing conflict in northeast Nigeria has displaced people from their land and caused food prices to soar. Thanks to resources and training from Mercy Corps, Lami’s crops are growing better, and she’s saved money.
Hunger almost never has one cause, and it almost never has one solution. Violent conflict, economic instability, inequality, the effects of climate change, the global pandemic — all of these issues can converge into an environment where hunger takes root. Mercy Corps works closely with communities to identify these underlying causes of hunger, and then develops a plan to address hunger at its source. For example, in Yemen, ongoing violent conflict coupled with economic collapse and the global pandemic has created one of the worst hunger crises in the world. Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes. Food prices are skyrocketing, while unemployment is also high. More than 20 million Yemenis do not have enough to eat. Since 2010, Mercy Corps has been providing urgent life-saving assistance in Yemen while also working to address longer-term needs. Currently we are providing food vouchers, which can be redeemed for a basket of essential food items including wheat flour, canned beans, sugar, and vegetable oil. 
These Mercy Corps community health volunteers walk from home to home in the northern hills of Yemen, helping mothers access malnutrition screenings and providing resources to keep families healthy.
While responding to immediate food needs, we’re also working on solutions to one of the underlying causes of hunger in the region — economic instability:
These are just a few examples of the impact Mercy Corps team members are making around the world. As a member of our global community, you are part of this life-changing work. If you can, I hope you’ll make a first-time gift to help us reach our $60,000 fundraising goal by July 31. And remember, thanks to our Matching Gift Challenge Fund, your matching gift can make an even greater difference to help find smart solutions to complex problems, and help people and communities emerge from crises even stronger than they were before. Thank you for your partnership, Craig Redmond, Senior Vice President of Programs Mercy Corps |
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