Somalia emergency
When the rain fails the herds die, the wells run dry and families walk. Your gift meets them at the end of that walk.
2.5m+
People displaced inside Somalia
UNHCR
£50
Provides clean water for a displaced family
£150
Sends emergency food where the market has failed
Years
We have worked alongside Somali communities
Drought does not arrive suddenly. It arrives as one failed rainy season, then another, then a family with nothing left to sell.
For the poor who are restricted, whom the unaware would think self sufficient because of their restraint.
Qur’an 2:273
Somalia is living through the collision of three things: conflict, repeated drought and a food economy too fragile to absorb either. More than two and a half million people are displaced inside their own country, and many more have crossed into neighbouring states.
For a pastoralist family, losing the herd is not losing an asset. It is losing the income, the food and the savings at once. What follows is a walk to a camp that is already full, where water is queued for and healthcare is a long way off.
We have worked with Somali communities for years, and our teams are from those communities. That matters most in the places that are hardest to reach, where larger operations often cannot go.
Relief alone leaves a community exactly where the next drought will find it. Where we can, we build the thing that outlasts us: a well that still works in the dry season, a clinic that stays open, a skill that earns. That is slower and less dramatic than an airlift, and it is what actually changes the outcome.
Every amount below is a real cost. Choose the one you can manage.
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Contact usBecause the underlying causes have not changed. Conflict displaces people, drought removes their livelihood, and each shock arrives before the last one has been recovered from.
Yes. Choose Zakat when you give and it goes only to those eligible under the eight categories.
Both, and in that order of priority once the immediate hunger is met. Food keeps a family alive this month. A well changes what the next dry season does to them.
Yes, and that is deliberate. Our teams are local, which is what makes those areas reachable at all.
Our teams report on every distribution. For detail on a specific gift, call 020 3633 2779.
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£450 raised of £50,000
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£280 raised of £50,000
Ongoing £250 provides shelter materials for a family through monsoon season. Nearly a million Rohingya remain in the camps at Cox’s Bazar. They fled with nothing and they still have nothing.
£350 raised of £50,000
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