President and CEO Sam Worthington quoted. Scenes of emaciated children and weary families crowded into refugee camps have been playing on televisions around the world for weeks now.But the famine hitting the Horn of Africa, which has killed more than 29,000 Somali children, has yet to propel the kind of outpouring of private donations seen in some recent disasters, and the U.N.'s humanitarian agency is reporting a shortfall as well.

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