Climate crises, chronic food shortages, and more than 20 years of conflict, Somalia faces some of the highest levels of acute food insecurity in the world. Without sufficient access to clean water and nutritious food, severe malnutrition and disease will continue to rise.
Action Against Hunger’s teams address the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition. We improve access to clean water, carry out measles vaccination campaigns, run cholera treatment centers, and provide supplies and education to promote hygiene. Our teams are also helping families who face drought and hunger with cash transfers, water trucking, and agricultural innovations such as solar irrigation kits.
People Provided with Primary Health Services
People Benefited From Food Security & Livelihoods Programs
Our female community influencers go from home to home, meeting with mothers, and discussing behavior changes to improve health, including breastfeeding, birth spacing, and delivering their babies at a health facility.
Read More about the Women Saving Lives in SomaliaIn drought-prone areas, we're using solar power to fuel everything from water pumps to portable irrigation systems.
Learn more about the Impact of Solar PowerIt is always my joy to see women and their children living a healthy lifestyle because of the information we provide...It is not an easy job, but we do it for our community.”
— Action Against Hunger Community Health Volunteer
Learn how women are filling Somalia’s health gapWhen she grows up, I want [my daughter] to go to school. I want her to have a better life than the one we live in now...[For now,] I am just so happy to see my daughter in her best state again.”
— Fatuma, mother to Halima
Saving Halima’s Life
When COVID-19 arrived, we quickly sprung to action to support the government in controlling the pandemic. As private hospitals shut down due to fears of the virus, our teams stepped up our support of health centers, treatment facilities, and isolation wards.
In De Martini Hospital – which was, for many months, the only operational quarantine hospital in Mogadishu – we provided PPE and medical supplies. We also supported frontline health staff with training and salaries.
