Around 363 thousand children are suffering from malnutrition and 71 thousand are facing a very deadly situation, and over 6.2 million people -half of the population of this country- need food aid, while thousands of families become internally displaced.
‘Several poor rainy seasons have caused a serious lack of water, by trebling its price up to 15 dollars per barrel (200 liters). Three-quarters of Somalia´s livestock has died and cereal output has dropped 75 percent, by shooting up food price’.
‘It is expected next rainy season to bring rainfalls lower than average, so there is a big chance that 2011 drought might be happening afresh,’ Director of ‘Save the Children’ Somali Humanitarian Organization, Hassan Saadi Noor stressed .
This humanitarian organization requires US$ 60 million to aid 1.2 million Somali nationals affected by this crisis. ‘Save the Children’ is currently providing the much more affected communities with water supply, medical service, nutritional assistance, food vouchers and cash transfers to face the present crisis.
On the other hand, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs urged the international community to contribute US$ 300 million before April for financial funds to help save lives.