<p> <p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> <p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;">Right now, today, children in East Africa are facing a desperate crisis caused by prolonged drought, soaring food prices and conflict. The United Nations has formally declared a famine in parts of southern Somalia.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15.6pt; border-style: initial; border-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;">This crisis is getting worse and we need to act now to save lives.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;">Dysentery, next to malaria and measles is the number three killer in East Africa. Lack of fresh water is also responsible for up to 75%&nbsp; of deaths in remote villages. Diarrheal diseases caused by polluted water are common across the developing world - killing 5,000 children every day.</span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;"></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15.6pt; border-style: initial; border-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;">Children and women are the most vulnerable. More than 2 million children under five in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are acutely malnourished, including almost 500,000 children suffering from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15.6pt; border-style: initial; border-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;">We are scaling up life-saving efforts for children in therapeutic feeding, providing access to safe water and sanitation, as well as preventing the spread of killer diseases including measles through vaccination campaigns.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15.6pt; border-style: initial; border-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;">We are the main provider of ready to use therapeutic food in all three countries, but we desperately need more funds in order to help us reach every child.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15.6pt; border-style: initial; border-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;"><strong>Please donate now.</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&nbsp;</span></p> </span></p> </p>