Habibo's Journey to Mogadishu ID Settlements
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Sunday October 08, 2023 - 12:51:50 in News & Stories by Super Admin
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The extent of the crisis in the region is extreme. Four consecutive seasons of drought have robbed people or their means or survival overs million animals hove died in Somalia alone since mid-2021, crops have repeatedly failed and families have been forced to abandon their homes and lands to seek food, water and pasture for the animals on which they rely for survival.
Many of the areas most affected by drought are also affected by conflict and violence. In Somalia there are 28 inaccessible and hard-to-reach areas where 1.7 million people are acutely food insecure. Insecurity and access constraints, are slowing and limiting the humanitarian response, and must be addressed by all parties.
Habibo's Journey to Mogadishu ID Settlements
Habibo Saleman Abdullahi is a 38 years old single mother of eight kids. Gurow Hassan the rather of this family was left behind with nothing taking care with his sick father before months ago.
She now lives in Awbaalle IDP in Mogadishu where she arrived in late May this year after, she was recently displaced from the rural area of Bay Region named Goof sharafow by many delays of rain seasons followed by verging drought of the last three consecutive years throughout the country.
Habibo was agro-pastoralists as she says and left all her belongings there and came here with nothing, in the first ten days upon her arrival, she did not get any support and stayed out open during that time without humanitarian assistance but survived on with little support she received from site leader during this difficult time she sought for begging in the streets of Mogadishu in order to feedback her starving children.
After 15 days since her arrival, she was joined by her father and mother with 2 kids with no one supporting her "my mama was not in a good condition while my father sick when they joined me so I had to take care of both all the family and look for their daily living", said by Habibo Saleman.
Habibo and her kids live in traditional make shift made of sticks, worn out clothes and tattered plastic sheets which the gate keeper greatly supported making while this shelter cannot protect them from bad weather and guarantee their security at night incase gangs/thieves misbehave with them.
Habibo's Journey to Mogadishu ID Settlements
The extent of the crisis in the region is extreme. Four consecutive seasons of drought have robbed people or their means or survival overs million animals hove died in Somalia alone since mid-2021, crops have repeatedly failed and families have been