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Freemasons' Grand Charity makes £10,000 emergency grant for Niger relief effort
The President of the Grand Charity has approved payment of an emergency grant of £10,000 from The Grand Charity to Save the Children. The payment is in response to a request for funds to support the emergency appeal issued by Save the Children to support its work in Niger.
A humanitarian crisis on a massive scale has arisen in the Sahel region of West Africa following a devastating combination of a poor harvest caused by drought conditions and the worst locust infestation in 20 years. Niger, the world's second poorest country, has been worst affected. The United Nations estimate around 2.5 million people have been impacted by the crisis, including 800,000 children.
Save the Children has launched an emergency response to provide life-saving supplementary and therapeutic feeding and related healthcare activities for approximately 43,000 children under five in the Maradi and Zinder regions of Niger.
Save the Children's main priority is to get clean food and water to children and their families in the affected area. The Grand Charity donation of £10,000 will provide lifesaving therapeutic food for 250 severely malnourished children for 30 days, the average time spent in the feeding programme and water purification tablets ensuring 10,000 children have clean water for 4 days.
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