Aid to Ukraine is plentiful, but urgent aid must be stopped elsewhere –

And with the available donation money, charities can also do less. Fuel has become more expensive and transport costs have risen as a result. In addition, the rise in food prices is continuing, which is hitting hard.

They reduce it here to prolong the aid. Refugees do not receive a bag of food, but money to buy their own food. Aid organizations are increasingly doing this so that refugees can decide for themselves what they eat and stimulate the local market. This budget has now been reduced by a quarter. Converts receive seven dollars per person per month. They can now survive for two weeks.

Other countries

The same scenario is happening in many other countries that are struggling to continue providing aid. Uganda, for example, warned yesterday that it has received 48,000 new refugees from the DRC and South Sudan since the beginning of the year and that there are insufficient resources to accommodate them all. Portions are also reduced.

Uganda has only 8% of the emergency aid budget. “We are not getting any money,” said Joël Boutroue, representative of the UN Refugee Agency in Uganda.

brutal choices

The World Food Program has previously warned that feeding the hungry requires difficult choices and eating from the hungry. For example, there is a threat of famine in Somalia in the Horn of Africa. According to an online UN survey, 28% of the requested aid was received there.

“The needs are very high there, as in many other places,” Bahaji says. “And then we can no longer propose to a young woman like Sifa in this camp in Malawi.”

Sour, he admits. Especially when he sees that a lot of money has been spent on the war in Ukraine. “The generosity of the European people towards Ukraine is inspiring, but the people here in Malawi have also fled, losing their homes and families.”