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Operation Blessing is a vital part of the international contingent of aid organizations intervening to ease the deadly famine now plaguing Niger. Find out OBI's latest famine relief activities, as well as read reports from the field.

Niger’s food crisis has reached critical levels, with 3.6 million people in need of food, including 800,000 malnourished children.

After months of severe drought and locust infestation, the annual fall harvest in the West African nation was unsalvageable, plunging the population into a deadly famine.

Operation Blessing is supplying food to otherwise unreached communities in rural Niger with the help of strategic partners in the field, like the German-based medical relief organization Humedica.

With thousands of tons of food now secured from the World Food Program and the Niger government’s Department of Famine Crisis, OBI is coordinating and implementing transportation for desperately-needed rice, cereal, beans and millet.

In a region strapped for food and other resources as well, the ingenuity and resourcefulness of OBI team members continues to “make things happen” when needs are urgent.

Help Operation Blessing persist in supplying life-saving food to the people of Niger. Make an online contribution to Niger famine relief today.