Somalis Helping Somalis
August 16, 2011
Somali children from southern Somalia, receive cooked food in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Aug 15, 2011
International organizations are not the only ones giving aid to the many thousands of Somalis displaced by drought and conflict. Somalis groups are also involved. One is the NGO Hijra.
"Currently, we are responding to the crisis in Mogadishu, the drought affected people, who are actually coming on a daily basis to Mogadishu. We also are doing some response to the conflict affected people in Mogadishu. So now, we are actually reaching more than 300,000 people living in Afgooye Corridor, which is actually outside Mogadishu, and about another 40,000 staying inside Mogadishu,” said Mohamed Dahir, Hijra’s director.
Terrible
The displaced have walked for many days in search of something to eat. Some have had to leave family members, including children, along the roadside when they became too weak to walk.
Dahir said, “Their condition is very terrible and these people are malnourished. If you see now the condition of children and mothers in these IDP camps it’s very terrible. Most of them are coming into the camp malnourished, very weak and walked long distances from the areas where they used to live. Most of them are coming from the areas actually struck by drought – from Bay, from Bakool and Lower Shabelle region.”
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