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Iris Relief News | Horn of Africa

Food, Blankets and Footballs to Somalia

9 May 2012 | Ania

My heart is filled with gratitude to Iris Relief and many others who partnered with me on a mission of mercy to the war torn country of Somalia. A nation that is recovering fr...

More Food Supplies to Wajir, Kenya, Horn of Africa

19 March 2012 | Elaine Savage, IRIS Relief Wajir Team Member

After 2 days of driving on rough roads, and 3 flat tires we made it to Wajir with the aim of revisiting villages gone to on previous relief trips, that were still struggling i...

Supplying Food, Medicines and Blankets to Somalia

7 February 2012 | Ben

The people of Somalia have been experiencing the horrific, devastating effects of war for over 20 years. In addition to that, they are in the midst of what is considered to be...

Kenyan child is adopted on iris relief trip

20 October 2011 | Cassandra Soars, Turkana Team

KENYAN CHILD IS ADOPTED ON IRIS RELIEF TRIP

We are having an amazing time! Today, we gave out food to 400 families, which means about 2500 people! They were very hungry and...

God healed the land

19 October 2011 | Raphael Vaney, Wijir Team

We had such an amazing journey these last few days! The wajir team went with one mission in mind-to see the drought ended and the land healed. God did not disappoint! For 3 st...

Turkana, Kenya IRIS Relief Team

19 October 2011 | Steve and Cassandra Soars

It was an extremely fruitful trip and God showed up in amazing ways to glorify Jesus. We fed thousands of hungry people in four different villages. Our Iris center in Kenya a...

News from Iris Famine Relief Team-Kenya

14 October 2011 | Edison Lee, Iris Relief Team Member

Eighty kilometers east of Lodwar sits the small village of Kerio

RAIN, RAIN AND MORE RAIN FOR WIJIR!!!!

13 October 2011 | Naomi Fennell, IRIS Relief Field Co-ordinator

The team have re-visited the drought struck village IRIS Relief began response to in August. Warmly welcomed back, they were able to distribute 18,000 liters of drinking wate...

2 More Teams Going to Horn of Africa

6 October 2011 | Danny Randall, IRIS Relief Co-leader

Just imagine 12 million people in desperate need of humanitarian assistance with over 750,000 at risk of death at this exact moment. These are the present statistics in Kenya and the closely surrounding areas. There is incredible need and suffering on a daily bas...

Somalia Famine: Look her in the eyes. See Her.

28 September 2011 | Iris Famine Relief Somalia Team member, Ben

Look her in the eyes. See her.

In her eyes you see a child of God.

A precious child of God who has known nothing but war. Her few years of life have been marked with pain and suffering. Her father is dead. Pointlessly killed by a pointless war. Her mother ...

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World News
Agencies Warn Poor Rain Threaten Somalia's Recovery
BY: bbc.co.uk
13 April 2012

Poor rainfall forecast for Somalia threatens its recovery from last year's devastating famine, aid agencies say. F...

Somali Famine: Situation 'still desperate' warns agency
BY: bbc.co.uk
20 January 2012

Six months after the first declaration of famine in Somalia, hundreds of thousands remain at risk, the Disasters Em...

East Africa drought 'remains huge crisis'
BY: bbc.co.uk
28 October 2011

Three months after famine was declared in Somalia, the scale of the crisis in the Horn of Africa remains huge, says...

Famine Early Warning System
BY: fews.net
14 October 2011

Latest Headlines: GLOBAL: August Staple Food Prices KENYA: Improvements in pastoral food security expec...

Areas of food shortage
Somalia famine: UN warns of 750,000 deaths
BY: bbc.co.uk
6 September 2011

5 September 2011 Last updated at 13:00 ET Some 750,000 could die in Somalia unless aid is stepped up, the UN war...

Parents wait with their malnourished and dehydrated children in a corridor at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu