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Dear friend,

When the UN
releases its next major report on the impacts of the climate crisis later
this month, the findings will reveal more about what we know to be true:
climate change is more than an environmental crisis — it is a human
crisis. Climate disasters have forced people from their homes, destroyed
livelihoods, and pushed more people to the brink of starvation.

People who have contributed the least to warming the globe are feeling the
most acute impacts of climate change — right now. That’s why Mercy Corps
partners with communities worldwide that are deeply affected by climate
change to help them overcome unprecedented disruptions to their health,
nutrition, and livelihoods.



[ [link removed] ] [ Safa ]Safa in her [ [link removed] ] [ Safa's ]Safa's
bakery cinnamon buns

Iriama cares for her kitchen garden in Uganda, a country which is facing
severe food shortage due in part to climate change. She learned how to
grow her garden through Mercy Corps’ mother care groups.


Our work focuses on four key outcome areas: Food security, water security,
economic opportunity, and peace and good governance. Climate change is
impacting all of these.

And right now, as the global food crisis spins further out of control, our
teams are seeing firsthand how the changing climate is creating deeper
food security challenges. Here are a few examples of those challenges —
and how Mercy Corps offers localized, long-term solutions to help people
cope, adapt, and thrive:


led to unreliable rainy seasons, causing
[ [link removed] ] [ [link removed] ][IMG] severe drought and unreliable harvests.

Solution: Mercy Corps trains women peer
groups to create “kitchen gardens” to
provide their families with reliable
vegetables that can grow year-round using
seasonal river water.
 
causes rivers to change course, damaging
[ [link removed] ] [ [link removed] ][IMG] crops and washing away entire rice
paddies.

Solution: Mercy Corps provided seeds,
fertilizer, and training to help farmers
grow sugarcane along the river, which
mitigates erosion from floods and
protects their rice.
 
and thirst as a result of the drought in
[ [link removed] ] [ [link removed] ][IMG] Ethiopia, destroying a key source of both
food and essential income.

Solution: Mercy Corps invests in
emergency feed and veterinary care for
pastoralists’ precious livestock, and
helps families access markets to sell
their animals more quickly.
 


More than 345 million people worldwide are facing acute food insecurity.
For them, climate change is a daily reality as changing weather patterns
make growing and buying food increasingly difficult.

With hunger at an all-time high, the global community must act now. The
drought in the Horn of Africa has already left at least 18.4 million
people across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia in desperate need of food
assistance — this figure could increase to 20 million in the coming weeks.

As
a member of our global community, we know you’re
committed to helping families around the globe adapt and adjust to climate
challenges. Will you take a moment today to declare your commitment to
communities most affected by the climate crisis? Add your name to our
climate change pledge.


[ [link removed] ]Sign the pledge [ [link removed] ]▸


Our goal is to collect 50,000 signatures that will show the collective
strength of our supporters who care about global communities in need of
humanitarian aid — from Somalia to Yemen and beyond — to help them cope,
adapt, and thrive in the face of the food crisis brought on by climate
change.

In partnership,

Craig Redmond
Senior Vice President of Programs
Mercy Corps

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