Emergency Food Assistance Offers Relief to Conflict-Affected Families in Gedo
When violent conflict broke out in Belet-Hawa, in Somalia’s Gedo region, Dahabo Jimcale had no choice but to flee. With six children to protect, she left behind everything she knew, including the small home she had built and her job at the local market, that enabled...
Flood-Resilient Sanitation: A Lifeline for Women and Girls
For Habiba Mohamed Odawaa, a mother of four living in Camp Bakaal, Baardheere District, access to safe sanitation was once a daily struggle. Like many displaced families in flood-prone areas in Somalia, Habiba and her neighbours relied on makeshift or shared pit...
Three Years of Clean Water Access in Kahandale Village, Somalia
Three years ago, in 2022, life in Kahandale Village, Galgadud Region, revolved around the daily struggle to find water. Women and girls bore the heaviest burden, walking long distances under the scorching sun to fetch water from unreliable sources. The long treks not...
Emergency Water Trucking Brings Relief to vulnerable Families in Somalia
Women and Children queue for water at a distribution site in Warcadey Halima Hassan is a displaced mother of two who fled violent conflict in her home village and now lives in Warcadey, Beledhawa district. Like many displaced households, Halima and a group of other women make daily, exhausting treks to find water, but the sources available are often unsafe. This forces them to collect contaminated water that has led to acute watery diarrhoea and other waterborne illnesses among their children....
