MOGADISHU, Somalia – The Somali Disaster Management Agency (SODMA) handed over 3,800 tons of food to the Benadir regional administration to distribute to the IDPs inside and outside Mogadishu.
As many as 150,000 families will receive the aid, according to the SODMA commissioner Mohamud Moalim Abdulle, while speaking to the deputy chairman of community affairs of the Benadir regional admin, Abdicasis Osman.
Osman said the food would be distributed to low-income families in Mogadishu, who are struggling with life and can not feed their children due to food insecurity in the country.
Abdulle said that SODMA is committed to assisting the most affected families who have been left behind by the parallel situations that have occurred in the country such as drought, floods, and river flooding.
SODMA has done a lot to deal with the humanitarian situation caused by the El Nino floods and the heavy rains that killed more than 100 people and displaced as many as two million.
Through concerted and joined-up action across government ministries, the country recently postponed an approaching famine and is at this moment afflicted by heavy seasonal rains that have caused extensive flooding across the country.
Almost half a million people have been affected, over 200,000 of them displaced from their homes, and more than 20 killed by floodwaters.
SODMA, the Somali Disaster Management Agency, holds a vision to transform Somalia into a fair, safer and resilient society where the impact of hazards would not hamper development and a better quality of life is achieved through effective emergency response, disaster risk reduction and resilient recovery.
