Mercy Corp is using $53,157.50 to extend the life-saving services to help those Ethiopians struck hardest by the drought in remote parts of eastern Ethiopia. These additional funds will allow mobile health and nutrition teams to work an additional month to identify more than 500 pregnant women and severely malnourished children under five, and provide them with vaccinations, medical check-ups and fortified food.

Save the Children is using another $53,157.50 to continue to support the nutrition and child-friendly programs for Somali refugees living in the Dolo Ado camps in Ethiopia. The nutrition program targets children, as well as pregnant and lactating mothers, while the child-related programs provide supervised child-friendly spaces, family tracing and reunification and interim care for children without parents – as well as mats, blankets, educational materials, plus water storage, water trucking and first aid kits.

Steve and Pam Thorne did not just want to give; they wanted to double their impact, and double yours. By providing $45,000 in matching donations, this family launched their starfish campaign and raised more than $118,600 to help the millions in danger of starvation, especially the children.
“We understand we cannot save them all, but we sure can help, and that is the story of the starfish,” says Pam Thorne.

Kid-rocker campaign fights famine through music. 11-year-old Grace London and her band Residual Kid teamed up to raise awareness and more than $15,000 in funds to help those suffering from the drought crisis. Watch the video of Grace sharing her journey to use her music to help those in East Africa with local NBC reporter Jim Swift. To catch an on stage view of the Residual Kid performance of a Grace London song called, “Can’t Take Me Away,” click here. The song was performed at Residual Kid's fundraiser for A Glimmer of Hope's Emergency Relief campaign. Already these kids are working hard to change the world.