by NAPAD | Jan 20, 2022 | Food Security, Nutrition
Safio Abdi Hirsi is a 47-year-old single mother whose household comprises 12 individuals including her grandchildren who are under five years. Mama Safio and her family were compelled to move from rural pastoral areas to Abudwak town when drought led to the death of...
by NAPAD | Jul 9, 2021 | Education, Emergency, Food Security, Nutrition
Access to education is a fundamental human right. Yet, for millions of women and girls among the food insecure IDPs and poor households in Somalia, education has remained a dream. Berlin Mohamed is a twelve-year-old, class five student at Dollow primary school located...
by NAPAD | Mar 12, 2021 | clean energy, Food Security, solarenergy
According to the Somalia Food Security Outlook, October 2020 to May 2021, acute food insecurity is expected to remain high in Somalia through May 2021. This situation is perpetuated by varying impacts of localized floods and below-average rainfall, a worsening desert...
by NAPAD | Jan 15, 2021 | Animal health, Food Security, Livelihoods, Livestock
Livestock play an important economic, social and cultural function for the pastoralist community in Galmudug State, Somalia. They sustain the wellbeing of the households and loss of these productive assets severely affect the household food security and ...
by NAPAD | Jan 7, 2021 | Animal health, clean energy, Climate change, Food Security, Livelihoods, Livestock, solarenergy, Somalia, WASH
Dalsan, a village roughly 20km from Abudwak town, hosts 400 households who rely on a diesel-powered generator. The high cost of running the generator and regularly breakdown forced the Dalsan community to turn to unsafe water sources such as water ponds. “Getting...
by NAPAD | Jan 7, 2021 | clean energy, Food Security, HEALTH, Livelihoods, Nutrition, solarenergy, Somalia
Abudwak, Galmudug state being arid and water scarce, there is a common perception that it is not suitable for farming. Farming is the least thing discussed in many households in this remote part of the country. That notion is slowly fading away for many...
