About the crisis
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) launched an emergency appeal on 24th May 2007 to save lives in Darfur, Chad and the Central African Republic.
With 4.5 million people affected by the ongoing conflict, the looming rains are bringing the risk of deadly conditions like diarrhoea and malaria, especially for children, pregnant mothers and the elderly.
With malnutrition levels already rising in some areas, aid agencies are appealing for vital help to respond to the rapidly growing crisis. Aid agencies also need to bolster life-saving food and medicine stocks before the downpours hit any time within the next four weeks.
The gathering storms will also make the delivery of aid a much more difficult task, with vehicle tracks disappearing and swollen rivers becoming all but impossible to cross – meaning help needs to arrive as soon as possible.
We desperately need your help - Please give as much as you can now!
24/7 automated donation line: 0870 60 60 900
£25 could buy plastic sheeting to shelter an entire family.
£80 could feed five critically malnourished children for a month.
£200 could buy a tap stand to provide one and a half thousand people with water – every day.
What your money can buy
Other ways to donate
Prime Minister urges action in Darfur and Chad
David Cameron backs appeal
Menzies Campbell backs appeal
Darfur/Chad Press Releases Scotland
Darfur/Chad Press Releases Wales
To view the Fergal Keane Appeal click here
Darfur and Chad crisis appeal press launch
Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson
Disasters Emergency Committee - Reg Charity No. 1062638
