in international disaster response funding, which could compromise the president’s ability to approve future aid. But who bears the true cost of such cutbacks?
As one woman refugee told Pender:
You go out into the forest and there are men with guns. They don’t care if you’re old, they don’t care if you are sick, they don’t care if you are pregnant. They rape you without consideration.
While it may seem the U.S. can’t afford to continue to send aid, the women of Eastern Africa can afford even less to be left unprotected.
To urge the Obama administration to continue to send aid for the famine victims, you can sign this Care2 petition:
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Photo by International Rescue Committee / Peter Biro. Somali refugee women are in dire need of protection as rapes increase at refugee camps in Kenya.