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We work to improve the East African country’s healthcare system and provide life-saving nutrition programmes.
Somalia is experiencing a prolonged and complex crisis characterised by conflict, displacement, drought and disease.
Malnutrition rates are high particularly among children, with almost one million children under five suffering from life-threatening hunger.
The influx of people from rural regions to urban areas also puts a strain on already limited resources – 893,000 people were forced to flee their homes in 2020 because of flooding and conflict.
Action Against Hunger's programmes reached almost 1.5 million people in 2020.
Somalia has a population of more than 15 million people.
One million Somalian children under five suffer from severe acute malnutrition – the most life-threatening form of hunger.
Action Against Hunger’s work in Somalia focus on treating women and children for malnutrition and providing clean water and sanitation. In 2020, our programmes in Somalia included:
After being admitted with malnutrition to an Action Against Hunger health centre in Mogadishu, Somalia, two-year-old Mohamed was able to go home after just ten days.
When 20-month-old Halima was admitted to one of our treatment centres in Somalia, she showed all the signs of life-threating hunger. She was underweight, she had swollen feet and hands, and her hair had started to fall out.
With an already depleted health care system, Somalia now also faces the threat of the Covid-19.
Coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the country and will put the most vulnerable communities most at risk. Some regions lack the basic resources to fight the virus and healthcare facilities and hospitals are ill equipped to face a pandemic of this scale.
In settlement camps, where many displaced families live, social distancing is almost impossible.
We’ve been working with the Ministry of Health as part of the country’s coronavirus prevention response. We’re supporting the only quarantine hospital in the capital, Mogadishu and supporting the government’s response with vehicles, emergency staff and contact tracing, as well as supplying essential testing kits and personal protective equipment.
We work to improve the East African country’s healthcare system and provide life-saving nutrition programmes.
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