Funding for Gedo Drought

Humanitarian partners are scaling up response to cover the needs of affected people in drought- affected regions in Somalia, while the aid agencies say that more than two million Somalis are in emergency need of food in the fear of famine.

Gedo region has been hard hit with 70 per cent of its population affected by drought conditions according to authorities and humanitarian partners. An estimated 1,500 people have been displaced from rural to urban areas within Gedo due to the drought.

About 77,000 people have received emergency water through water trucking in Baardheere, Ceel Waaq, Doolow and Luuq distri- cts in Gedo region, while another 78,000 people will receive similar support in October in Buur Dhuubo and Garbahaarey.

Recently, The North American Council of Somali Imams collected $50,000 donation from their 25 affiliate mosques to help the people of Gedo who are suffering from lack of water. An Event to hand the donations to HARO was held at Masjid Abubakar in Minneapolis where more than 20 members from the community gathered to discuss and voice their concerns. The Imam of Masjid Abubakar Shiekh Abdirahman Shiekh Omar vowed to keep working with HARO to help the most needed people in the most desperate conditions in Somalia while the president HARO, Ali Abdinur reminded the attendees the work HARO has being doing in this region for the last few years.

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