Somalia: children affected by conflict receive food supplements

01-11-2012 Photo gallery

Nearly 2,000 vulnerable children in the town of Hudur, in the Bakool Region of Somalia, have received emergency supplementary feeding support from the ICRC. In the past few months the town and its environs have been significantly affected by the ongoing conflict in Somalia. The ICRC, after carrying out a rapid assessment, identified that the most vulnerable of the population were in urgent need of support due to declining access to food in the local markets resulting from the fighting there. The ICRC approached all parties to the conflict to seek their approval to carry out an urgent distribution of nutritional supplements in favour of the most affected children in the town.

- Hudur airstrip, Somalia. The ICRC chartered a flight to deliver Plumpy'nut to the Hudur - Bakool region of Somalia. 750 cartons of Plumpy'nut (peanut-based therapeutic food) were distributed to nearly 2,000 children.
  © ICRC / Hayir / so-e-00649
- Hudur, Somalia, September 2012. Mothers waiting to register their children for screening in Morogabey-Hudur, one of the four sites where the ICRC distributed Plumpy'nut to children under the age of five.
  © ICRC / Hawa
- Hudur, Somalia. ICRC medical field officers registering beneficiaries during the distribution of Plumpy'nut.
  © ICRC / Hayir
- Hudur, Somalia. The ICRC rapidly provided supplementary feeding for 1,964 children under the age of five.
  © ICRC / Hawa / so-e-00650
- Nearly 2,000 vulnerable children in the town of Hudur, in the Bakool Region of Somalia, have received emergency supplementary feeding support from the ICRC.
  © ICRC / SO-E-00653
- Beneficiaries return home after receiving Plumpy'nut. The nutritional supplements will cover the children's nutritional needs for two months. The ICRC will continue to monitor the situation.
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Somalia: children affected by conflict receive food supplements

01-11-2012 Photo gallery

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