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Did you know?
Somalia has the
longest coastline out
of all the countries on
the continent of
Africa.
3. Somalia has a lot of exotic
animals
Somalia has the world’s largest
population of camels. The
most widely recognised symbol
in Somalia is the camel. This is
because the camel provides
meat, milk, transportation,
income and status for those
who own one.
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• Somali and Arabic are the two
official languages of Somalia.
• Somali is spoken by the Somali
people, the largest ethnic group
in the country.
• Swahili is also spoken,
particularly in the south of the
country.
• English is the most popular
foreign language spoken in
Somalia.
Somalia’s current climate is
hot and dry, with uneven
rainfall and regular droughts.
There are two rainy seasons and
two dry seasons in Somalia.
The two rainy
seasons are
called:
The Gu
April to June
The Dayr
October to
November
The two dry
seasons are
called:
The Jiilaal
December to
March
The Xagaa
July to
September
5. Nasteha’s mum, Ambiyo, said:
‘Before the drought came we had 200 goats and
one donkey. We were also farmers with a plot
of land and we grew sorghum (a millet).
Our home was built from mud walls and had
two rooms – enough room for us all. We were
happy and settled and could afford items and
the upkeep of our children. But everything
changed when the drought came three
years ago. The drought took our livelihoods.’
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6. An internally displaced person (IDP) is a person
who is forced to leave their home because their life
is in danger and seek safety and protection in
another part of their own country.
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11. ‘Every human wakes up wanting to do something useful
that day. He needs to know what lies ahead for the day.
So when somebody doesn’t have anything to do or look
forward to it is very hard.’
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12. ‘I want an education. When I
grow up I want a job and I would
like to support my mother and
father. I would like to teach in a
school some day.’
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15. ‘I greet the people of Ireland. And I
thank them for supporting the people
of Somalia through Trócaire. Without
the support my family received from
Ireland we might not be alive. I want
people to know that we want to live a
better life and to have food for my
children. I need food assistance and
we are getting this. Thank you to
people in Ireland for supporting my
family and the people in internally
displaced camps in Gedo.’
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16. Myth Fact
Only countries in the Global South
receive overseas aid.
Ireland received overseas aid during the famine from places like India and South America.
Every country can experience hardships that require aid from overseas.
We haven’t caused these problems; it
is not our problem to fix them.
Many of these problems are linked to colonialism, conflict and climate change, which have
many of their roots in the Global North.
Governments should provide for their
own people.
Governments face major challenges in providing basic services such as healthcare and
education and cannot do this without assistance from overseas.
Aid has no long-term, lasting impact. Overseas aid is making a real impact. It has helped to save millions of lives and to reduce
extreme poverty around the world. Because of overseas aid more children are in school than
ever before and fewer women are dying in childbirth.
Local people have no say in how
overseas aid is used.
Trócaire works in partnership with community-based groups, so local people remain the driving
force for change.
Ireland has fulfilled all its commitments
to overseas aid.
The wealthiest countries of the world each agreed to spend at least 0.7 per cent of their annual
gross national income on overseas aid. This promise amounts to spending just 70 cent for
every €100 on aid. Unfortunately, most countries, including Ireland, have not met this goal. In
fact, in 2020 Ireland spent roughly only 31 cent for every €100 on overseas aid.
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Editor's Notes
Boyle School Gedo, Photo credit: Joy Obuya, Trócaire.
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Capital city: Mogadishu
Languages: Somali and Arabic are the two official languages
Bordered by: Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti
The country has coastlines on both the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden
Population: 15.89 million (2022)
Religion: Mainly Islam
Currency: Somalia Shilling (Roughly 550 Somali Shillings has the same value as €1 and 630 Somali Shillings has the same value as £1.)
69 per cent of Somalia live in poverty (nearly seven out of every ten people).
The Somali flag is blue with a white star.
The star, which is called the ‘star of unity’, has five points that represent the Somali people in different places: the Somali people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somaliland, the Somalis of old Italian Somalia and the Somalis of North Kenya.
The blue represents the Indian ocean and the sky.
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Somalia is very close to the equator so sometimes temperatures can be very high. There is only a small amount of rainfall during the rainy season.
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Nasteha is eight years old and is from Southern Somalia. She lives with her mum Ambiyo, her dad Mahat and her seven siblings.
Nasteha used to live in Southern Somalia with her family. Their home had mud walls and two rooms. Nasteha’s parents are farmers and they also had a plot of land where they grew sorghum (a millet). The family was very happy in their home. Over the past couple of years, however, the rainy seasons have failed in the region where they lived. As a result of the lack of precipitation in the area, Nasteha and her family had to leave their home because it became very difficult to grow their crops and feed their livestock.
Since March 2022 Nasteha and her family have been living in an internally displaced persons camp.
Nasteha (8) and her family, her mother Ambiyo (36), father Mahat (39) and her siblings, Willow (14), Issack (12), Fathan (10), Mohammad (4), Zelinab (2) and baby Feisal, near their home in the IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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In this picture you can see Ambiyo, Nasteha's mum. Read her quote and discuss the meaning of the words 'drought' and ‘livelihood’.
If the young people haven’t learned about climate change yet, you can watch the Climate Change Explained video by Trócaire.
For further information on how climate change has affected people in the global south, you can watch the Climate Justice Explained video by Trócaire.
Ambiyo (36), IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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The IDP camp is a temporary safe shelter for people who were forced to leave their homes.
The lack of rain meant that Nasteha’s family couldn’t grow any food. Their animals started to die due to the lack of water too and when the last of their goats passed away, they had to make the very difficult choice to leave their home. The family walked for three days and two nights to get to the IDP camp.
The IDP camp is now home to thousands of families who have had to leave their homes because of the effects of climate change. New families have been arriving every day over the past couple of months. The land is very dry and the only vegetation is bush scrubs. The weather is very hot and temperatures are nearly 40 degrees Celsius.
IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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Young children like Nasteha run around outside their shelters. There are no toys and no playgrounds; however, the children are very creative. Some children play with sticks and empty water containers. Older boys use the containers as footballs.
Children playing outisde, IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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In this picture you can see the shelter where Nasteha and her family live.
The shelter where the family lives is approximately 12 feet (3.6 metres) by 10 feet (3.05 metres) and is built from sticks and twigs covered with scraps of different materials, such as plastic and cardboard. When Nasteha and her family arrived at the camp, they had nothing. The older children went to the bush and got sticks to help build the shelter for their family. They gathered bits of plastic and material from their neighbours.
The family used the cardboard from boxes of plumpy nut (a nutritious food) they received from Trócaire to fill in the gaps. No material goes to waste here. There is just one bed in the shelter. Nasteha’s father sleeps outside and the rest of the children sleep on mats on the ground.
Nasteha’s family shelter, IDP camp, Gedo Region. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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In this picture you can see Ambiyo looking after her baby inside the shelter.
Ambiyo (36) and her newborn daughter, Feisal, inside her shelter in the IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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In this pictures you can see Nasteha’s mother, Ambiyo, making a lunch of ambulo (a stew made from maize and beans).
Before cooking, Ambiyo needs to go and fetch water in the yellow container. Then she makes a fire and cooks outside.
Ambiyo looks around the shelter. ‘We don’t own this land. Before we had our own land and a livelihood. The children sleep on the floor. There are not enough mats for them all. It is hard to see what the future will hold.’ Ambiyo and Mahat hope to have a place they can call their own, a place where they can live with their children.
Ambiyo (36) in her makeshift kitchen, IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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This is Nasteha’s father, Mahat.
Mahat goes into the town to look for any casual work he can find. He gets whatever work he can to buy a little food, but most days he comes back with nothing. There is no work most of the time. Nasteha’s sister Willo, who is fourteen, sometimes gets work in town washing clothes to make some money for the family. She also gathers sticks to sell as firewood so they can buy food. Soon her brothers Issack, who is twelve, and Fathan, who is ten, will be old enough to work and support the family.
For Mahat the worst thing is feeling that he has no focus each day and that he is not able to support his family: ‘Every human wakes up wanting to do something useful that day. He needs to know what lies ahead for the day. So when somebody doesn’t have anything to do or look forward to it is very hard.’
Mahat (39) carrying water to the homestead, IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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This is Nasteha’s sister, Willow.
Willow, who is fourteen, sometimes gets work in town washing clothes to make some money for the family. She also gathers sticks to sell as firewood so they can buy food.
Willow helps her mum looking after her little siblings. She is very protective of them. She is like their second mother.
Willow (14) outside her home in the IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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The children wake up at sunrise. The first thing they do after they wake up is say their prayers. The family is Muslim and they practise a religion called Islam. Their faith is very important to them and they pray together as a family. After prayers, the older children make tea and, if there is enough sorghum (a cereal grain), they make traditional pancakes for breakfast. After breakfast, the older children go to school.
The older children used to go to Islamic school known as Dugsi. Dugsi is a place where Muslim children learn about their religion.
Recently they have started going to a school in the IDP camp run by Trócaire. They are very excited because they have never been to a school like this before. They will have uniforms and copybooks and schoolbooks.
Nasteha and Willow at school, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
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Trócaire operates a hospital and health clinics in the IDP camp.
People can receive healthcare and nutritional support. Women can also deliver their babies here.
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Ambiyo's biggest wish is for a better life for her family: ‘Most of all I want my children’s lives to be better. I want them to go to school and to have a good education. I did not go to school and my husband did not go to school. I am happy to be here as we are near the health services so if my children get sick they will get help. It is good to be here where we have supports. Being here gives me hope.’
‘I greet the people of Ireland. And I thank them for supporting the people of Somalia through Trócaire. Without the support my family received from Ireland we might not be alive. I want people to know that we want to live a better life and to have food for my children. I need food assistance and we are getting this. Thank you to the people in Ireland for supporting my family and the people in Internally Displaced Camps in Gedo.’
Nasteha and her mum, Ambiyo, in the IDP camp, Gedo Region, Somalia. Photo credit: Joy Obuya.
