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Although the daytime temperatures are warming up, at night, when hedgehogs forage, the ground is still frozen, and all natural prey is still slumbering deep beneath the earth. So hedgehogs who have been forced by hunger to rise from hibernation early will find no safe food, unless you provide... show more

Hedgehog Cabin

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Claire Jenkins1 year ago

I think seeing a little hedgehog having a good feed was just what I needed on a Monday morning!

Hedgehog Cabin1 year ago

Aw yes, there is something immensely satisfying about seeing a starving little baby like this eat her fill.🥰

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Claudia McLean1 year ago

It really is so easy, just some food & water can & does save precious lives. They are vulnerable at this time of year, so the food & water is essential. Poor wee hogs...

Hedgehog Cabin1 year ago

Yes, it really doesn't take much.

Hedgehog's Quest1 year ago

The movie makes this post extra motivational!

Hedgehog Cabin1 year ago

Aw yes, darling little Noa. She was so close the death when she was found, dying of starvation.

Samia B 𓂆1 year ago

What a beautiful reminder! Last night the water in the bowl froze. Is there a heating pad I could use that is portable and doesn’t need to be switched into the mains? 🦔 💦

Hedgehog Cabin1 year ago

No, not a battery one. And the pads that can be warmed in a microwave and last a few hours get quite hot, so can burn little paws. You can insulate the water dish though. Here's a video I made about that:

Hedgehog Hideaway1 year ago

We have at least one who has been visiting us regularly all winter. thankfully making use of our feed station throughout. kitten biscuits, just the ticket 😋

Hedgehog Cabin1 year ago

Oh well done, thank you for being his lifeline!🥰

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The ground has been baked so dry and rock hard that the Red Kites are coming down in my garden to eat the leftover cat food I put out for the foxes. Earthworms and beetles make up a major part of a red kite's diet and, just like our hedgehogs, they can starve in prolonged hot dry weather. Their natural prey is inaccessible, as it has burrowed deep down into the earth, where the soil is still moist. Our hedgehogs are now starving too, so as well as clean water, please put out a dish of dry cat/kitten food each evening. Any type or flavour, as long as meat is the first listed ingredient. Thank you.❤️

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A feeder is a great place to provide food and clean water for your visiting hedgehogs. It keeps the food dry and safe from stealing cats and contagious slugs, and is a secure haven for the hedgehogs. A tummy full of food takes a hedgehog about 2 hours to digest, so where better to have a little nap and let that dinner go down, than in a nice safe dry feeder? It saves so much energy, and when you wake up you can have seconds. 😊 How to make or buy a feeder advice here:

A feeder is a great place to provide food and clean water for your visiting hedgehogs. It keeps the food dry and safe from stealing cats and contagious slugs, and is a secure haven for the hedgehogs. A tummy full of food takes a hedgehog about 2 hours to digest, so where better to have a little nap and let that dinner go down, than in a nice safe dry feeder? It saves so much energy, and when you wake up you can have seconds. 😊 How to make or buy a feeder advice here:

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It's official! The hedgehogs are starting to rise from hibernation. They will be weak, hungry and thirsty, and a little slow and disorientated at first. But these vulnerable little animals will use the last of their remaining energy getting back to the one place they trust will have good safe food and clean water waiting for them - you!🥰 So please have your dry kitten/cat food out ready, and plenty of fresh water each evening. It won't be long now, and it's far too early for there to be any natural food around, so your provisions will literally be a life saver. This is an ex-patient returning here yesterday, just after rising from his hibernation nest in the woods. I know he's an ex-patient because he heads straight for pen 5, the favourite pen for all the hedgehogs (I have no idea why, and there are 6 identical pens!). I know he's fresh from hibernation because although he knows the way well, he's slow, hesitant, stopping to smell his way. And I know he's a boy, because boys rise from hibernation first, about a month before the girls. They need this time to eat without distraction, in order to recover from hibernation and build themselves back up to a strong healthy state, ready for the trials of mating. Don't worry if yours aren't up yet. The later they went down, the later they will rise.

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The question I'm being asked most often lately is: "Where have all my hedgehogs gone?" If the hedgehogs you regularly feed haven't made an appearance lately, don't worry. It happens every year at this time. They have found a natural souce of food - possibly a clump of nettles full of newly emerged caterpillars - and they will make the most of this bonanza while it lasts. (Hedgehogs will ALWAYS prefer their own naturally foraged food over what we provide, so you can never overfeed them or make them dependent on you). So please keep a little food out every night, as they will return when the bonanza runs out, and it'll be when you least expect it. Put a saucer over it, to keep it fresh for longer and to keep the slugs out. And this is the perfect time to make the most of their absence by giving their house a good clean and preparing it for autumn.

The question I'm being asked most often lately is: "Where have all my hedgehogs gone?" If the hedgehogs you regularly feed haven't made an appearance lately, don't worry. It happens every year at this time. They have found a natural souce of food - possibly a clump of nettles full of newly emerged caterpillars - and they will make the most of this bonanza while it lasts. (Hedgehogs will ALWAYS prefer their own naturally foraged food over what we provide, so you can never overfeed them or make them dependent on you). So please keep a little food out every night, as they will return when the bonanza runs out, and it'll be when you least expect it. Put a saucer over it, to keep it fresh for longer and to keep the slugs out. And this is the perfect time to make the most of their absence by giving their house a good clean and preparing it for autumn.

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This time of year you may find foxes coming into your garden, trying to take the food you've put out for the hedgehogs. Mid March is peak baby birthing time for foxes, so right now these new mums are feeding lots of little mouths, so are extra hungry. And the dads are desperately looking for food to take home to mums who can't yet leave the den and their new cubs. So please be patient with them. They won't harm the hedgehogs, they just need food. A raw egg in its shell makes an easy takeaway meal for them. And dog or cat food, wet or dry, or dog treats, will give them the extra nutrition and calories they need. Use a heavy dish, or pin it down (as shown in the video below) as they will try to steal it. I always imagine them thinking, "This dish is magic! It refills with food every night. If take it home I'll never have to go out looking for food again!" 😊

This time of year you may find foxes coming into your garden, trying to take the food you've put out for the hedgehogs. Mid March is peak baby birthing time for foxes, so right now these new mums are feeding lots of little mouths, so are extra hungry. And the dads are desperately looking for food to take home to mums who can't yet leave the den and their new cubs. So please be patient with them. They won't harm the hedgehogs, they just need food. A raw egg in its shell makes an easy takeaway meal for them. And dog or cat food, wet or dry, or dog treats, will give them the extra nutrition and calories they need. Use a heavy dish, or pin it down (as shown in the video below) as they will try to steal it. I always imagine them thinking, "This dish is magic! It refills with food every night. If take it home I'll never have to go out looking for food again!" 😊

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You know how a wide, shallow dish of water will evaporate quicker than the same amount of water in a tall cup? That's because the wide dish has a large Surface Area To Volume Ratio. And that's what hedgehogs have: A wide, fat, flat-ish area of body holding a small amount of volume (blood). Most mammal's blood is around 10% of their body weight. But with hedgehogs it's only 8%. This means that hedgehogs get dehydrated quicker than other mammals, so need to drink lots more water. So please go through that cupboard in your kitchen where you keep the flan dishes and baking tins that you never use, and put one by your front door and one by your back door. Fill them up with water, and refresh that before you go to bed. It's never been so easy to save a life.

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Water is the stuff of life. The UK still hasn't recovered from the driest spring for 50 years, and natural water sources are still dry. Even if you are unable to do anything else, please provide fresh water nightly. Every night of the year. Animals die of thirst not only in the hot summer months, but throughout the winter months also, when natural water sources are frozen and inaccessible. A simple turn of the tap for you means the difference between life and death for them. This is a just a ground bird bath in my front garden. Visited during the day by all manner of birds, drinking and bathing. Included in the night shift, beside the hedgehogs and foxes, are smaller, but no less important creatures. Notice beneath the stray cat is a snail taking a drink. Then look under him, and there's a little frog quenching his thirst. Frogs don't drink through their mouths, they absorb the water through their skin via a 'drinking patch' on their belly and the underside of their thighs. Providing clean water is such an easy way to save a life. Please be a wildlife hero and get that water out there now.

Water is the stuff of life. The UK still hasn't recovered from the driest spring for 50 years, and natural water sources are still dry. Even if you are unable to do anything else, please provide fresh water nightly. Every night of the year. Animals die of thirst not only in the hot summer months, but throughout the winter months also, when natural water sources are frozen and inaccessible. A simple turn of the tap for you means the difference between life and death for them. This is a just a ground bird bath in my front garden. Visited during the day by all manner of birds, drinking and bathing. Included in the night shift, beside the hedgehogs and foxes, are smaller, but no less important creatures. Notice beneath the stray cat is a snail taking a drink. Then look under him, and there's a little frog quenching his thirst. Frogs don't drink through their mouths, they absorb the water through their skin via a 'drinking patch' on their belly and the underside of their thighs. Providing clean water is such an easy way to save a life. Please be a wildlife hero and get that water out there now.

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19,901 views • 1 year ago

We had a little rain yesterday here in Hampshire, the first serious shower for over 50 days, and already the life it brings has made a difference. Worms are back on the menu again, as this dear fox so beautifully demonstrates. Catching worms without snapping them takes practice, and a technique this juvenile has been forced to master. The fact he is actively hunting them, when earthworms normally provide such a small part of a fox's diet, illustrates just how hard any other food is to find. So please continue providing food, especially for your visiting hedgehogs, as your good safe balanced nutrition is a life saver.

We had a little rain yesterday here in Hampshire, the first serious shower for over 50 days, and already the life it brings has made a difference. Worms are back on the menu again, as this dear fox so beautifully demonstrates. Catching worms without snapping them takes practice, and a technique this juvenile has been forced to master. The fact he is actively hunting them, when earthworms normally provide such a small part of a fox's diet, illustrates just how hard any other food is to find. So please continue providing food, especially for your visiting hedgehogs, as your good safe balanced nutrition is a life saver.

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If the hedgehogs you kindly feed are absent from your garden this week, it's probably because they've found themselves a little patch of caterpillars like this. This is dining at The Ivy for hedgehogs.🥰 Caterpillars and beetles. That's what hedgehogs eat. Not slugs and snails (they carry lungworm - deadly to all mammals; hedgehogs have no magical defence). And your garden doesn't have to be 'messy' to support our precious wildlife. You can have the best of both worlds. If you mow a lawn, please leave the edges and the corners. You will get used to seeing it without it annoying you, I promise, and the difference it makes: the divesity of life that will thrive in your more natural, unregimented garden will bring you such joy. Patches of native, and naturalized or an archaeophyte plants (like the humble and easy to grow nasturtium) will provide food for the caterpillars which hatch from the butterfly eggs, and for the beetles which are the slug's natural predator, helping to balance your garden's ecosystem.

If the hedgehogs you kindly feed are absent from your garden this week, it's probably because they've found themselves a little patch of caterpillars like this. This is dining at The Ivy for hedgehogs.🥰 Caterpillars and beetles. That's what hedgehogs eat. Not slugs and snails (they carry lungworm - deadly to all mammals; hedgehogs have no magical defence). And your garden doesn't have to be 'messy' to support our precious wildlife. You can have the best of both worlds. If you mow a lawn, please leave the edges and the corners. You will get used to seeing it without it annoying you, I promise, and the difference it makes: the divesity of life that will thrive in your more natural, unregimented garden will bring you such joy. Patches of native, and naturalized or an archaeophyte plants (like the humble and easy to grow nasturtium) will provide food for the caterpillars which hatch from the butterfly eggs, and for the beetles which are the slug's natural predator, helping to balance your garden's ecosystem.

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32,491 views • 1 year ago

Hedgehogs are great creatures of habit, and will always return to the same spot to hibernate, if they can. Darling Belina has already returned here, to 'her' pen, and is beginning to prepare for hibernation this year. With the prolonged drought conditions forcing trees to drop their fruit and leaves early, and the absence of natural food, the signs and smells of approaching autumn have arrived very prematurely this year, so hedgehogs are likely to enter hibernation early. So now is the ideal time to check any empty hedgehog houses in your garden, to ensure they are still weatherproof, and give them a good clean out. Please always use the stick test first, to make absolutely sure the house doesn't have a resident (see below). Once the houses are completely dry, line them with newspaper and stuff them full to the brim with clean dry hay. Then poke your hand inside the hay, through the doorway, and flatten down an area, to make an inviting cosy nest. (scroll to the bottom of this website page to see a How-To video of making up a house: Don't worry if the house already has a resident. Just fill a large flowerpot or bucket with fresh hay and lie it on its side, next to the house, so the resident can help themselves to clean sheets.😊 Hedgehogs build 2, sometime 3 hibernation nests, just in case their chosen nest becomes endangered or flooded. This forward-thinking means they always have a safe warm ready-made shelter to move straight into, at a time when dry nesting material would be impossible to find, and they wouldn't have the energy to build. Isn't that clever? Belina's history:

Hedgehogs are great creatures of habit, and will always return to the same spot to hibernate, if they can. Darling Belina has already returned here, to 'her' pen, and is beginning to prepare for hibernation this year. With the prolonged drought conditions forcing trees to drop their fruit and leaves early, and the absence of natural food, the signs and smells of approaching autumn have arrived very prematurely this year, so hedgehogs are likely to enter hibernation early. So now is the ideal time to check any empty hedgehog houses in your garden, to ensure they are still weatherproof, and give them a good clean out. Please always use the stick test first, to make absolutely sure the house doesn't have a resident (see below). Once the houses are completely dry, line them with newspaper and stuff them full to the brim with clean dry hay. Then poke your hand inside the hay, through the doorway, and flatten down an area, to make an inviting cosy nest. (scroll to the bottom of this website page to see a How-To video of making up a house: Don't worry if the house already has a resident. Just fill a large flowerpot or bucket with fresh hay and lie it on its side, next to the house, so the resident can help themselves to clean sheets.😊 Hedgehogs build 2, sometime 3 hibernation nests, just in case their chosen nest becomes endangered or flooded. This forward-thinking means they always have a safe warm ready-made shelter to move straight into, at a time when dry nesting material would be impossible to find, and they wouldn't have the energy to build. Isn't that clever? Belina's history:

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Please put out a dish of water, now. And refresh it tonight, and every night, just before dark. Leave yourself a reminder note on the fridge.📜✍️ Babies are dying because the mums are too dehydrated to make enough milk for their needs. Even if you had a rain shower in the night, the natural water sources are still all dried up, and our wildlife are suffering. It takes so little to make their hard little lives easier. A turn of the tap is nothing for you, but could mean the difference between life and death for your nocturnal visitors, who are often forgotten about but who have slept all through the hot day and wake so thirsty. Hedgehogs in particular need to drink a lot of water because of their shape: they have a large surface area to volume ratio, so lose water via natural evaporation quicker than other mammals. Their mouths are set back under their snout, so drinking from a deep or small diameter dish (like a Gü pot) is uncomfortable for them, as it means them having to submerge their nose. A wide shallow dish is best; a plant pot saucer or, like this, a glass flan dish or pyrex lid - it's heavy enough not to tip up but nice and shallow and wide. So please put out a dish of life saving water right now, front and back of your house, and refresh it before you go to bed tonight. It'll be the easiest way you'll ever save a life.💝

Please put out a dish of water, now. And refresh it tonight, and every night, just before dark. Leave yourself a reminder note on the fridge.📜✍️ Babies are dying because the mums are too dehydrated to make enough milk for their needs. Even if you had a rain shower in the night, the natural water sources are still all dried up, and our wildlife are suffering. It takes so little to make their hard little lives easier. A turn of the tap is nothing for you, but could mean the difference between life and death for your nocturnal visitors, who are often forgotten about but who have slept all through the hot day and wake so thirsty. Hedgehogs in particular need to drink a lot of water because of their shape: they have a large surface area to volume ratio, so lose water via natural evaporation quicker than other mammals. Their mouths are set back under their snout, so drinking from a deep or small diameter dish (like a Gü pot) is uncomfortable for them, as it means them having to submerge their nose. A wide shallow dish is best; a plant pot saucer or, like this, a glass flan dish or pyrex lid - it's heavy enough not to tip up but nice and shallow and wide. So please put out a dish of life saving water right now, front and back of your house, and refresh it before you go to bed tonight. It'll be the easiest way you'll ever save a life.💝

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As we enter yet another week of drought conditions please, I beg you, put out water for the wildlife. They have nothing. No puddles. No ponds. No streams. All have dried up. Sometimes the birds are thought of and provided for. But the nocturnal animals go unseen. Unthought of. No kind dishes. Just the tantalising smell of water from a pond they may drown in, or a drain they may get trapped in. Or a stagnant, dirty old birdbath they may get fatal fluke from. Hedgehogs need to drink a lot of water to stay healthy. Please provide clean, fresh, safe, ground level water each evening for our precious nocturnal wildlife. Tap water is best. Pop a dish or two out tonight. Dying of thirst is a terrible, painful way to die. It should never happen to any animal, and certainly not in a country that has the safest tap water in the world. The few minutes it takes you to fill a dish will make the difference between life and death.❤️

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12,548 views • 2 years ago

This behaviour is called kleptoparasitism. Red kites were persecuted for centuries and are exceptionally wary of landing on the ground. But by waiting for the highly intelligent, bold magpie to safely feed first, the kite effectively verifies that the food isn't poisoned and that no hidden predators, traps, or humans are waiting in ambush. Once the magpie deems it safe, the kite swoops down to usurp the food using its superior size. The kite using the magpie this way is interspecific: Stealing between different species. Kleptoparasitism is heavily linked to high intelligence and cognitive flexibility. So it's no surprise that our clever, adaptable hedgehogs also use it. Hedgehogs use intraspecific kleptoparasitism (stealing from members of the same species), by stealth, rather than the kite's scramble method. Many of you will have seen and filmed this - one hedgehog stealing bedding from another's house, to line his own. 😊(this always makes me smile). This stealing, instead of having to search and forage the nesting materials for themselves, saves the hedgehogs so much time and energy, therefore boosting their survival chances. So leaving a pile of hay beside your hedgehog's house (protected from the weather inside a large flowerpot or bucket laid on its side) will help everyone.❤️

This behaviour is called kleptoparasitism. Red kites were persecuted for centuries and are exceptionally wary of landing on the ground. But by waiting for the highly intelligent, bold magpie to safely feed first, the kite effectively verifies that the food isn't poisoned and that no hidden predators, traps, or humans are waiting in ambush. Once the magpie deems it safe, the kite swoops down to usurp the food using its superior size. The kite using the magpie this way is interspecific: Stealing between different species. Kleptoparasitism is heavily linked to high intelligence and cognitive flexibility. So it's no surprise that our clever, adaptable hedgehogs also use it. Hedgehogs use intraspecific kleptoparasitism (stealing from members of the same species), by stealth, rather than the kite's scramble method. Many of you will have seen and filmed this - one hedgehog stealing bedding from another's house, to line his own. 😊(this always makes me smile). This stealing, instead of having to search and forage the nesting materials for themselves, saves the hedgehogs so much time and energy, therefore boosting their survival chances. So leaving a pile of hay beside your hedgehog's house (protected from the weather inside a large flowerpot or bucket laid on its side) will help everyone.❤️

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24,674 views • 24 days ago

This tiny little baby girl is Noa. Noa weighs just 99 grams. She's suffering from severe malnutrition and starvation because we've destroyed her natural food. She should be stuffing herself with caterpillars, but look around. How many butterflies have you seen this year? Until nature can recover (which means all of us have to act responsibly and allow our gardens to be less controlled, more natural and wild) we need to provide food for these gentle, trusting, silent victims of our excesses. See how just a little cat food animates this poor starving scrap of life? You could be saving a life like this, tonight, in your garden. This is Royal Canin Mother and Babycat food soaked in warm water; a special food because poor baby Noa is so malnourished and weak. But any cat or dog food is great; wet or dry, as long as meat is the first listed ingredient. Dry kitten food is perfect. Thankfully baby Noa made it through the night, but is still very fragile and her recovery is uncertain. There are so many baby Noas out there right now, in the desert of decking and manicured lawns, desperately seeking just a little kindness. Please be their oasis tonight.

This tiny little baby girl is Noa. Noa weighs just 99 grams. She's suffering from severe malnutrition and starvation because we've destroyed her natural food. She should be stuffing herself with caterpillars, but look around. How many butterflies have you seen this year? Until nature can recover (which means all of us have to act responsibly and allow our gardens to be less controlled, more natural and wild) we need to provide food for these gentle, trusting, silent victims of our excesses. See how just a little cat food animates this poor starving scrap of life? You could be saving a life like this, tonight, in your garden. This is Royal Canin Mother and Babycat food soaked in warm water; a special food because poor baby Noa is so malnourished and weak. But any cat or dog food is great; wet or dry, as long as meat is the first listed ingredient. Dry kitten food is perfect. Thankfully baby Noa made it through the night, but is still very fragile and her recovery is uncertain. There are so many baby Noas out there right now, in the desert of decking and manicured lawns, desperately seeking just a little kindness. Please be their oasis tonight.

Hedgehog Cabin

55,265 views • 2 years ago

The streets of Valencia are eerily empty as the region braces for more heavy rains. WCK is not going anywhere. More than 160 towns have cancelled school as a precaution, and some residents have been instructed to seek higher ground or evacuate. Despite restrictions, our teams have been able to provide more than 11,000 hot meals and sandwiches today and our support of local food vendors expanded to include a pescadería where people can pick up fresh fish. We will resume all meal deliveries as soon as it is safe to do so. Stay safe, Valencia! #ChefsForSpain

The streets of Valencia are eerily empty as the region braces for more heavy rains. WCK is not going anywhere. More than 160 towns have cancelled school as a precaution, and some residents have been instructed to seek higher ground or evacuate. Despite restrictions, our teams have been able to provide more than 11,000 hot meals and sandwiches today and our support of local food vendors expanded to include a pescadería where people can pick up fresh fish. We will resume all meal deliveries as soon as it is safe to do so. Stay safe, Valencia! #ChefsForSpain

World Central Kitchen

26,418 views • 1 year ago

Hedgehogs eat caterpillars, beetles, larvae, and a few insects. They DON'T eat slugs and snails, they are not on their menu no matter who tells you, or how much you trust them to be right about other things. Of course you might occasionally see this because an animal dying of hunger will eat anything to stop the pain. Starving children are seen eating mud, but that doesn't mean mud is on the human menu. Our hedgehogs are dying of starvation because we've destroyed their habitat and natural food. Common sense alone will tell you that if hedgehogs really did eat slugs, they would be fat and flourishing and would never need to hibernate for lack of food!😋 We all have plenty of slugs! So if you see this myth anywhere, please challenge it. Educate them. For hog's sake.

Hedgehogs eat caterpillars, beetles, larvae, and a few insects. They DON'T eat slugs and snails, they are not on their menu no matter who tells you, or how much you trust them to be right about other things. Of course you might occasionally see this because an animal dying of hunger will eat anything to stop the pain. Starving children are seen eating mud, but that doesn't mean mud is on the human menu. Our hedgehogs are dying of starvation because we've destroyed their habitat and natural food. Common sense alone will tell you that if hedgehogs really did eat slugs, they would be fat and flourishing and would never need to hibernate for lack of food!😋 We all have plenty of slugs! So if you see this myth anywhere, please challenge it. Educate them. For hog's sake.

Hedgehog Cabin

12,755 views • 1 year ago

Conflict and hunger are exploding in South Sudan. 1.2M people have already been displaced and the fighting shows no signs of stopping. World Food Programme is doing whatever it takes to deliver life-saving food to those most in need—but aid workers must be protected and safe access guaranteed.

Conflict and hunger are exploding in South Sudan. 1.2M people have already been displaced and the fighting shows no signs of stopping. World Food Programme is doing whatever it takes to deliver life-saving food to those most in need—but aid workers must be protected and safe access guaranteed.

Carl Skau

57,716 views • 6 months ago