Aid In Mali And Niger (1)

Question 0

What are the risks and problems

Answer 0

Drought - most people are farmers
Flooding in 2007
In 2005, 3.3 million people were at risk from food shortage
Plague of locusts in 2004
30-39% of each is undernourished
Only 50% of population have access to safe drinking water
Life expectancy - 54-58

Question 1

Where is Mali and Niger

Answer 1

Western Africa in the Tropic of Cancer

Question 2

Aid projects

Answer 2

UNICEF giving aid to Niger
$270,000 for 14,000 malnourished children
Opened cereal banks - loan food to people who repay in cash or crop when harvest comes
Support women’s groups promoting breast feeding and loaning goats
Twice a year gives vitamin A to all children

Question 3

Additional aid

Answer 3

UK gave £3 million for world food program (£1mil to feed 200,000 for a month)
Further £2 million given in 2006
UK then spent £500,000 on improving diet
Oxfam help improve education and women are more involved with schools as well as the book to child ratio being higher as well