Displaced by drought

Suldana,15, and her family traveled for eight days finally making it to a displaced peoples camp in southern Somalia after losing all their livestock to the drought.

Now, Suldana is the family’s sole breadwinner. She goes into town daily to find work, mostly washing dishes, where, if she is lucky, she earns around US$0.88.

“I do this work alone. It’s difficult because some of the customers mistreat you, especially if you are a girl.”

Prices are increasing steadily (90% of Somalia’s wheat is imported from Ukraine and Russia) and Suldana is usually only able to buy one meal a day for her family.

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Somalia

Somalia is facing severe droughts that cause devastating implications on poor, rural families who depend on farming and grazing for their food intake and family income.

Approximately 1.4 million children are at risk of acute malnutrition.

More than 7 million people are experiencing severe food insecurity.

Driven by the country’s worst drought in 40 years, hunger has displaced more that 800, 000 people.

World Vision is providing food vouchers and cash to displaced families every month in partnership with the World Food Program.

We are working with local partners and government, through multi-sectoral and sequence programming to address the root causes of vulnerability at household, communities and institutional levels.

Approximately 1.4 million

children are at risk of acute malnutrition