STOP A COVID HUNGER CRISIS

In many of the communities where we work, our partners are moved to respond to urgent needs and widen out their water and sanitation programme. To help our partners respond to emergency crises, we have launched a Twinning Appeals website – and our very first appeal is raising urgent funds to provide emergency food packages and create job opportunities for millions of people who are going hungry because of the economic fall-out from Covid-19. More than 40 million people are facing extreme hunger, and South Sudan and Yemen are on the brink of famine.

Covid-19 is creating a hunger crisis. More than 40 million people are facing emergency levels of hunger in countries like South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan and DRC. In DRC alone, more than 27 million people are struggling to eat at least one meal a day. In South Sudan, food prices rose 42% in just one month.

Our parent charity, Tearfund, is a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). The DEC warns that many are likely to die of starvation this year.

Covid-19 vaccines are urgently needed, but they will not solve the hunger crisis in the short or medium term. It’s predicted it could be the middle of 2023 before it’s possible to deliver vaccines in some of the world’s most vulnerable and remote places.

Fridge Twinning will help people who were already vulnerable before Covid-19 hit: people who lack access to adequate healthcare, water, food and ways to earn a living.

Those who are most at risk of being destitute are people paid a daily wage, and those who rely on cash from family abroad. These sources of income have dried up due to lockdowns and job losses in the global downturn. Refugees, millions of whom live in overcrowded camps and makeshift shelters, are even more at risk now, without the opportunity to work and access healthcare.

The Covid recovery programme spans more than 20 countries, including:

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, South Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

You’ll receive a fridge magnet set made up of individual words and pictures that you can customise on your fridge. All the countries listed above will feature on the magnet.

Where we work, impoverished households don’t have fridges, and families usually go to a local market a few times a week to buy food. In effect, you are twinning the contents of your fridge with food-related projects overseas.

If you put a Fridge Twin in your basket and then click through to the Checkout, you’ll have an opportunity on the final confirmation page to add a £3 donation towards postage & packaging, and an option to add in an extra donation of any amount you choose.

Online: The easiest way to donate is via this site, using a debit or credit card.

Cheque: If you prefer to donate by cheque, please make it payable to Toilet Twinning, and write Fridge Twinning on the back, and send it with your name and address to: Twinning Appeals, 1052-1054 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH7 6DS

BACS Transfer: A donation can be made directly to the bank account.

Account name: Tearfund t/a Toilet Twinning
Bank: Barclays
Account: 53798860
Sort code: 20-00-00 

Please start the reference field with the initials FT followed by your name (for example, ‘FT-name/organisation’ ) and email us with details of your name, address, amount transferred and date of transfer so we can track your donation. If you would like fridge magnets for every £30 donated, please confirm this in the email.

If you would rather not receive a magnet after placing your donation, please email appeals@toilettwinning.org to let us know your order number, name and that you don’t wish to receive anything in the post. (If you don’t have a magnetic fridge door and would prefer a pdf of the magnet set, you can download it here, print it out and display it on your fridge).