Mercy Corps focuses on Niger’s “Silent Disaster”
Mercy Corps is giving special attention to Niger's ongoing cycle of hunger in their fundraising efforts, calling it one of the world's "Silent Disasters". From their web site, http://www.mercycorps.org : Long months of hunger between meager harvests hold Niger's families in a brutal grip. Mercy Corps is helping them break free. Successive poor harvests put more than 3.5 million Nigeriens - about 20 percent of that country's entire population...