Day Five of Somalia Awareness Week

We've been sharing information all week, here on the OMB blog, on Facebook and via Twitter, about Somalia Awareness Week.

We've shared facts and figures, information and videos, and now what we're hoping is that all this has moved you to action.  For today, the call is to pledge to make a handmade bone through the Students Rebuild Humanitarian Crises challenge.

It is particularly heart-wrenching to me to think of all the Somali people who are hungry as I plan a Thanksgiving meal with family and friends. What if after our dinner we all spent one hour creating bones, spending the time talking to people we care about and helping to make a difference for people we don't even know, but who need our help.  Here's what new refugee families is Dadaab Camp live on:

At reception centers for new arrivals, CARE distributes the first 21 days’ worth of food (wheat flour, corn soy blend (CSB), vegetable oil, maize/corn meal, pulses/beans, sugar, salt) and non-food items, which include plastic tarpaulins, kitchen sets, soap, blankets, plastic mats and 10 liter jerry cans. These items help to bridge the time until registration after which refugees are entitled to a tent and the regular food distribution cycle."

Every bone you and your family make, if you decide to do this, will help generate actual dollars for CARE's work in Somalia. 

All of us hope you'll consider some action to reach out. It's really easy to do:

Register here.

Find out how to make bones here.

Send them here when you're done.

And, send photos, if you'd like.

Thank you for everything that you do.