Somalia

Our projects in Somalia

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:

• reaching over 500,000 people through our nutrition programmes
• treating children and pregnant and breastfeeding women for malnutrition
• supporting vulnerable families with cash transfers, allowing them buy food and essential services during severe droughts
• distributing essential hygiene kits through our water, sanitation and hygiene programmes
• raising awareness of Covid-19 by text message and on the radio
• adapting our nutrition programmes so they can be held virtually

Our response to Covid-19 in Somalia

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.