Somalia: A Generation At Risk

Falastine, her two younger siblings, and their mother became sick soon after they arrived, two weeks ago, at a camp outside the city of Mogadishu—one of the hundreds of thousands of Somalis displaced from drought-stricken villages. They all started to improve after a visit to a local health center, but just after midnight Falastine took a turn for the worse and began vomiting.

Falastine needs more intensive care than the clinic can provide. Her doctor has referred her to the nearby Banadir Hospital, also supported by the IRC. Mohamed, Falastine's father, gently lifts his little girl from the bed and carries her down the hall, his wife just behind him. They pray that they will be able to get their daughter the treatment she needs to survive.

Widespread famine caused by conflict and drought has pushed 30 million people to the brink of starvation. The IRC is on the frontlines, rapidly scaling up our emergency response in the hardest hit countries: Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya. We need your support today, not tomorrow. An entire generation depends on it.

The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.

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