Step Up for Africa Sponsored Wallk 2011: Horn of Africa Famine Appeal

Hi everyone,

Would you Adam and Eve it, I completed the walk from Tower Bridge to Battersea Bridge on Saturday 23 July 2011. It felt a lot further than I anticipated but had a fantastic time doing it. We check out a gallery and some street performers along the way & it didn't rain so I couldn't have asked for a better day for such a great cause.
Please give generously guys and thank you so much for your support!!!! You can still keep giving even though the walk has been completed; every penny counts. Lets reach the target and fly past it, get involved and get clicking!!

Below is some more background on the problem.

The humanitarian crisis unfolding in the horn of Africa is frightening. The successive rainfall failures in this region have resulted into the worst drought in 60 years, this has caused a massive loss of livestock; the main source of livelihood of the pastoralist communities in the region. Food shortages and rising food prices are causing severe malnutrition among the general population, particularly affecting children worst of all.
The humanitarian crisis is rapidly turning into famine on a scale not seen in the region since 1992. The lack of security in Somalia has made the crisis even worse by causing massive displacement of the population in southern Somalia, who are then fleeing into Kenya to seek refuge.
North Eastern Kenya has been particularly affected by this influx of internally displaced people from southern Somalia. The increased number of people is putting enormous pressure on the region already reeling from the effect of drought and the high cost of food and the lack of support from the Kenyan government.