{"id":1291,"date":"2011-10-31T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2011-12-11T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:36:49","slug":"east-africa-drought-crisis-prompts-a-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"East Africa Drought Crisis Prompts a Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The worst drought in East Africa is 60 years <\/strong>continues to create severe food and water shortages for people in the region. \u00a0An estimated 13.3 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti are affected. \u00a0The Lutheran World Federation is managing the Dadaab refugee camp complex in Kenya where more than 400,000 people are living in places designed for 90,000. \u00a0There are about 1,200 new arrivals each day. \u00a0Children are particularly vulnerable and many are arrive malnourished. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwr.org\/site\/c.dmJXKiOYJgI6G\/b.6319057\/k.C1B0\/Donate.htm\">Lutheran World Relief <\/a>and Lutheran World Federation are working together to respond to the tremendous need. \u00a0Of every $1.00 given to <a href=\"http:\/\/lwr.org\/site\/c.dmJXKiOYJgI6G\/b.6319057\/k.C1B0\/Donate.htm\">Lutheran World Relief <\/a>, $.91 cents goes directly to support programatic aid.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lwr.org\/site\/c.dmJXKiOYJgI6G\/b.6319057\/k.C1B0\/Donate.htm\">DONATION PAGE<\/a> of Lutheran World Relief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><\/em>&#8211; Jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst drought in East Africa is 60 years continues to create severe food and water shortages for people in the region. \u00a0An estimated 13.3 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti are affected. \u00a0The Lutheran World Federation is managing the Dadaab refugee camp complex in Kenya where more than 400,000 people are living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacelutheranseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}