Current and Future Work

World Vision’s long-term development programs in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania will continue to focus on disaster risk reduction and building creating greater resilience in communities.

World Vision, internationally, will continue to lobby and call on donors, the UN, governments and key stakeholders to bring about change for the most vulnerable people in East Africa.

Background information

The Horn of Africa has been repeatedly hit by drought over recent years. Poor rainfall across the region in 2010/2011, combined with massively inflated food prices, affected some 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa and also in Tanzania, East Africa.

Communities in Somalia were also impacted by conflict. The number of people severely affected by drought and hunger catapulted from 7 million in March 2011 to approximately 13 million by September 2011.

World Vision CEO Tim Costello visited Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Watch this video about the effect of years of drought as Tim speaks with a woman who'd lost six children due to drought and disease: