Exercise 6: Adapted from 'Drought Leaves Ethiopia Facing Food Crisis' 12th Feb 2016 by Sean Banville Several international charities have issued a warning about a looming humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. The North African country has been hit by its worst drought in 50 years. It is widely expected that emergency food aid for 10 million Ethiopians will run out unless more funds can be raised. John Graham, the head of the charity Save the Children said, "The international community has less than three weeks to raise $245 million to fund the charity's emergency food aid programme to prevent a likely increase in severe malnutrition cases." The money will go towards supplying food for the starving Ethiopians. He added, "If the funds do not come in time, there will be a critical shortage in the food supply and many Ethiopians will die from hunger ." Ethiopia, with a population of over 102 million, is Africa's secon...
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Short articles to read with your child to expand their interests to history, biographies, nature, science and any other current issues. These articles served to encourage my children to read and be familiar to the usage of grammar and vocabulary used in Comprehension Cloze, which is worth 15marks! Hope you will find these articles helpful.