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World Vision is responding in the Bakool and Bay regions, where some 35,000 people have traveled hundreds of miles to find sanctuary from the violence in the Somali capital.World Vision is calling for safe humanitarian access for international aid workers.
World Vision is responding in the Bakool and Bay regions, where some 35,000 people—half of them children—have traveled hundreds of miles to find sanctuary from the violence in the Somali capital. Photo by Nancy Okwengu/World Vision

World Vision is calling for safe humanitarian access for international aid workers so that more assistance can reach innocent civilians who are suffering from the effects of fighting, flooding and drought. Photo by Nancy Okwengu/World Vision

Fauma Hassan does not know the fate of the rest of her family.World Vision has treated dozens of patients suffering from an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea, which has already killed several children.
Fauma Hassan (right) does not know the fate of the rest of her family: “... I tried finding them but the fighting was so intense that we fled without them.” Photo by Nancy Okwengu/World Vision

World Vision has treated dozens of patients suffering from an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea, which has already killed several children. Photo by Nancy Okwengu/World Vision

"The new arrivals from Mogadishu are living in overcrowded shanties or huts, and many didn’t have time to pack any belongings,” says Ibrahim Dima, a regional coordinator for World Vision Somalia.World Vision has operated in Somalia since 1992, focusing on health, education, advocacy, food security, water and sanitation and emergency response interventions.
"The new arrivals from Mogadishu are living in overcrowded shanties or huts, and many didn’t have time to pack any belongings,” says Ibrahim Dima, a regional coordinator for World Vision Somalia. Photo by Nancy Okwengu/World Vision

World Vision has operated in Somalia since 1992, focusing on health, education, advocacy, food security, water and sanitation and emergency response interventions. Photo by Nancy Okwengu/World Vision

The agency’s assessment team has also observed serious cases of trauma in women and children, stemming from their war experiences in Mogadishu.The victims of this renewed fighting are mostly destitute women and children who are at a high risk to all forms of abuse.
The agency’s assessment team has also observed serious cases of trauma in women and children, stemming from their war experiences in Mogadishu. Photo by Nancy Okwengu/World Vision The victims of this renewed fighting are mostly destitute women and children who are at a high risk to all forms of abuse. Photo by Nancy Okwengu/World Vision


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