Patients at the new clinic. Bioley, Bakool region, July 2008

The ICRC has been active in Somalia for 30 years and is one of the few humanitarian organizations still working there today. Each year it distributes relief aid to more than 500,000 people displaced by the protracted conflict and manages over 300 water, health, agricultural and livelihood projects. It works in close partnership with the Somali Red Crescent Society.