There is a growing emergency for more than 56,000 children who are believed to be suffering from moderate and severe malnutrition in affected areas. the figure is expected to rise dramatically over the next three months.

In many of these countries, children live in an almost constant state of emergency because they are growing up in extreme poverty, without access to education or the most basic health services.

In many of these countries, children live in an almost constant state of emergency because they are growing up in extreme poverty, without access to education or the most basic health services.

The clock is ticking for a significant number of children in the southeastern part of Ethiopia who are already under life-threatening conditions.

Drought need not be a death sentence for children living in affected communities. We can save thousands of lives if we can get the emergency health, nutrition, water and sanitation interventions to them before it is too late.

The last two weeks, I was just suffering. I couldn't even watch it. I know it's ridiculous. I know it's only a game. But those last two weeks, I was sick.