What was HARO doing since the Drought Started? Click Here!

The drought in the Horn of Africa has put nearly 13.3 million people in urgent need of humanitarian aid across Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibouti. The crisis has been escalating dramatically in recent months, especially in Somalia, and as a result more people, crops and livestock will be affected in the coming months.

Somalia remains by far the most affected country, with an estimated 40 percent of its total population affected, living as internally displaced people or at refugee camps in neighboring countries
(primarily Kenya and Ethiopia). The Dadaab camp in Kenya is now the largest refugee settlement in the world.

Although HARO was already active in humanitarian efforts, the recent droughts made us work even harder to reach places where most organizations can’t reach because of security and lack of protection. HARO has highly trained representatives and agents in many parts of the country, so they can coordinate our aid to the locals and people who are in need the most.