DALLAS — Texas Baptists are giving $25,000 through a group of churches to help victims of the East Africa famine.
The convention is giving $20,000 from its disaster relief funds and $5,000 from the Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger to TEAM — The Ethiopian Aid Mission, a consortium of primarily Baptist congregations in east Texas who have been serving in Ethiopia more than three years. The coalition will work with Ethiopian congregations to ensure that people who need food receive it.
About 12 million people in the Horn of Africa are facing hunger, and thousands of Somalis daily are fleeing the nation for refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. Camps are swelling in size as people begin living on the outskirts of the settlements.
According to media reports, about half of the children attempting to get to the camps are at risk of dying as a result of malnutrition and disease. Jim Palmer, who coordinates TEAM’s work in Ethiopia, recently has been in dialogue with church leaders there about how to provide assistance. TEAM congregations and partners have raised nearly $10,000 for the relief effort as well. (TAB)
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