Education is the foundation for any community to survive and succeed! Education is the foundation for any community to survive and succeed! Education is the foundation for any community to survive and succeed!

More than 150,000 Somalis have been forced to flee their homes since late June, including some 23,000 in the last week alone, due to flash and riverine flooding in the Southern regions of Somalia. Rapid assessments indicate that communities in Hirshabelle and South West States are amongst the worst hit. The year has seen extreme flooding, displacing over 650,000 people across the country since the beginning of the year.

Somalia Drought: Un Warns Of Humanitarian Crisis

Education is the foundation for any community to survive and succeed! Education is the foundation for any community to survive and succeed! Education is the foundation for any community to survive and succeed!

In October of this year, Amoud Foundation shipped a container full of books and educational materials destined for the Horn of Africa.

This region, in the Horn of Africa has already been ravaged by the one of the worst droughts the area has seen in 60-years. The recent rains have caused severe flooding, destruction of homes, and left thousands of people without shelter, food or clean water.

The Horn of Africa experiences four distinct seasons throughout the year, but these seasons are that are quite different from those in North America and most of the West.

The dry conditions follow a poor 2018 Deyr rainy season (Oct-Dec), ongoing conflict in some parts of the country as well as continued displacement and forced evictions in urban centers.

As the Emergency Crisis in the Horn of Africa enters into a critical stage, Food Insecurity is one of the major worries for millions of people displaced by the ongoing drought and famine.