Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the world, has granted $2.5 million to nonprofit organization Mercy Corps, Seattle Times reports. The Portland, Oregon–based company will use the money to fund relief and longer-term recovery efforts in drought-stricken Wajir county on Kenya’s border with Somalia.
Till date, Mercy Corps has raised $5.4 million in private funds for Horn of Africa relief efforts. The foundation also granted $1.6 million to International Medical Corps to provide emergency food assistance and to help improve health, hygiene and sanitation in northern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia.
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