Niger: How to help

updated 3:50 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2008

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The fingers of malnourished one-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother at an emergency feeding clinic in the town of Tahoua in northwestern Niger

Niger famine

Nearly a third of Niger's 11.3 million people risk starvation after drought and locust invasion wiped out crops last year. Slide show

Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters

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NIGER: Maps, facts and figures

How you can help

Here are a few of the organizations that are working to provide famine relief in Niger:

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (http://www.ifrc.org/)

UNICEF (https://www.unicefusa.org/)

Save the Children (http://www.savethechildren.org)

WorldVision (http://donate.wvus.org/)

MercyCorps (http://www.mercycorps.org/home/)

CARE (http://www.careusa.org/)

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Famine threat grows
July 30: Calls for humanitarian aid for drought-stricken Niger are rising as three million people in the West African country face starvation. ITN’s Gair Vincent reports.

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