Somalia

24 رمضان 1434

How breastfeeding helps save lives: focus on Somalia

World Breastfeeding Week is a time to promote the benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and children. Breastfeeding provides the safest and most nutritious food for infants and young children, giving them the best chance for a healthy life.
Helping displaced people survive in the barren hills of Somaliland
3 محرم 1433

Helping displaced people survive in the barren hills of Somaliland

Somalia Red Crescent volunteers daily assist displaced people ever since Somaliland declared independence two decades ago. An example of people-to-people assistance ...
Celebrating the value of volunteering in Somalia
16 جمادى الثانية 1432

Celebrating the value of volunteering in Somalia

This World Red Cross Red Crescent day, the Somali Red Crescent decided to literally show the value of volunteers by providing first aid demonstrations, and ...
Saint Lucia: Red Cross reponds to devastation caused by Hurricane Tomas
28 ذو القعدة 1431

Saint Lucia: Red Cross reponds to devastation caused by Hurricane Tomas

As Hurricane Tomas passed over the Antilles, it brought heavy rains and sustained winds of more than 90 miles to Saint Lucia.
No end in sight for flood-stricken Somalia
20 ذو القعدة 1427

No end in sight for flood-stricken Somalia

Flooded roads and tracks continue to hinder the delivery of emergency relief supplies to some 350,000 people affected by the worst floods Somalia has seen in a decade.
Somali Red Crescent cleans up the tsunami mess
15 محرم 1426

Somali Red Crescent cleans up the tsunami mess

Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS) volunteers have since 29 December been engaged up in a massive cleaning operation in Hafun, a thriving fishing town sitting on a ...
2 محرم 1426

Somalis pick up the pieces after the tsunami

Hawa is an enterprising young woman.
Somalis learn from the tsunami disaster
16 ذو الحجة 1425

Somalis learn from the tsunami disaster

Abdirisak’s life will never be the same again.
Red Crescent clinics provide unique lifeline for Somalis
13 شوال 1423

Red Crescent clinics provide unique lifeline for Somalis

In Somalia, life expectancy is just 47 years; every day 45 Somali women die as a result of complications during pregnancy or childbirth; only one in ten infants is ...
28 ذو القعدة 1422

Somali Red Crescent joins inter-agency vaccination drive against meningitis

"A strong volunteer base helped us fight a disease we had not experienced in decades," says Ali Sheikh, the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS) coordinator in Somaliland.

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