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Somalia programme
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As a result of 18 years of lack of effective central governing authority and
protracted natural and manmade disasters, Somalia has suffered degradation
of infrastructure and basic services and a depleted human resource base.
The country is highly fragmented with three self declared autonomous regions
of South and central Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland. The effects
of the political crisis and natural calamities have resulted in an enduring
humanitarian crisis in Somalia.
Our programmes in Somalia aim to improve access to basic services particularly
education including special education, water and health for the
rural community and displaced communities.
Where we work
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Weather in Mogadishu, Somalia
Mogadishu relief project
STOCKHOLM, October 30, 2007 - International Aid Services has recieved funds
from Swedish Mission Council (SMC) / Sida for a relief intervention in Mogadishu, Somalia.
The project is called 'Livelihood support to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) in Mogadishu' and we will implement the activities
together with SAACID, our local partner.
The proposed project will try to mitigate human suffering in Mogadishu area by providing Non-Food Items (NFIs),
constructions of pit latrines and hygiene training to the displaced people. 2,300 displaced families currently
camping in makeshifts in different parts of Mogadishu will benefit in the project.
These families translate to about 5,200 persons.
The sub-goals of the project are:
1. To provide temporary shelter.
2. To provide essential households equipment/tools.
3. To improve the hygiene conditions.
4. To involve the local community.
Indicators:
1. 1200 households will have received plastic sheeting.
2. 1200 households will have received cups, plates and sufuria.
3. 50 pit latrines will have been constructed.
4. 5 committees will have been formed, one in every camp.
Time frame:
November - December 2007
Death of Ahmed Badil Barrow
MOGADISHU, May 24, 2005 - On the night of Thursday 12th May 2005, Ahmed Badil Barrow,
the Principal of Banadir Primary School in Mogadishu died as he slept.
We are told that he suffered a fatal heart attack.
He had been Principal of this school since it was founded and also the Vice Chairman
of a local organisation that partners with IAS. A laboratory technician by profession,
Ahmed was trained at a mennonite hospital and worked with them in Mahadey.
He changed professions after the break out of the civil war when the systems collapsed.
He along with some elders in Mogadishu founded the school and sought support from IAS.
With the kind funding of African Services and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida),
this school has been the source of hope for many children in the poverty stricken
Medina district of Southern Mogadishu.
Primary Health Care Project in Southern Somalia
MOGADISHU, May 12, 2005 - IAS has focused on a small village called Elasha, which lies some 17 kms West
of Mogadishu on the Afgoye road in Lower Shabelle region of Southern Somalia. IAS supports an OPD/MCH
hospital and a primary school in this village with a high number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The facility was initially built as a school by a partner organisation, Diakonie Bread for the World Germany (DBG),
but was later renovated by IAS to serve as a hospital dispensary. A school was then built in a nearby site.
The centre provides out patient care to the community living in the IDPs camp and the surrounding areas.
It also serves as the training base for many Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in the area.
A mobile expanded program for immunization is also run from here targeting the surrounding areas.
Some of the 60 women, including some traditional birth attendants, attending
adult education classes at the primary school in the early evening hours.
(Photo: Elias Kamau)
Sida funded Basic Education and Primary Health Care Project in Southern Somalia. (Photo: Elias Kamau)
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