Alight’s 5-country response
As food insecurity impacts more than 40 million people and nearly 10 million children are acutely malnourished or worse, families are feeling out of control. Alight is there with a comprehensive regional response spanning Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan. In many remote communities, the only humanitarian organization people have ever known is Alight.
We have one eye on this emergency, mobilizing lifesaving care and working to preserve the peace and safety of community. But we also have an eye to the future and are working on thoughtful solutions to help communities build resilience and pursue the lives and futures they want.
Lifesaving care – emergency nutrition and medical support
Therapeutic feeding – In the Horn of Africa alone, 7 million children are acutely malnourished. They need immediate care to fend off starvation and return to safety and health. Alight operates more than 100 nutrition centers – some static, some attached to medical centers, some outreach in the remotest areas – throughout East Africa. We work with children under 5 as well as pregnant and nursing mothers Depending on severity of the case, they undergo either in-patient or out-patient feeding and micronutrient support. Intestinal worms interfere with a person’s nutrient uptake and can cause malnutrition, so our medical teams also administer deworming medications and campaigns.
Alight health promoters find the children and mothers who need our support most. They’re in the community visiting families, holding community screening events, and enrolling children and nursing mothers to join our feeding programs. And they stay with families, providing one-on-one case management to care for patients all the way to food resilience.
