SHAA Distributed A Cash Relief Program Donated By Hormuud Telecom In Mogadishu
During the intervention 255 families (115 older male and 140 older women) headed by older aged persons living in IDP at Afgoye corridors in Lower Shebelle region and 125 families (83 older women and 42 older men) headed by desperate and vulnerable elderly persons living in IDPs in Mogadishu, Banadir region were assisted and given $100 cash relief grants and those assisted were happy with a kind of assistance they received.
During selection and identification process, the team from Somali Help Age has visited the Mogadishu IDP camps and Afgoye corridors and identified the most vulnerable old aged people who has been living in the visited areas and recorded their full names, ages and family size.
Thanks for Hormuud Telecom Company which has earnestly donated $60.000 Sixty Thousands US dollars to support the displaced vulnerable old aged people in Mogadishu IDP camps and Afgoye corridors.
In addition, there has been no any other support provided to those old aged displaced people in the camps visited by Somali Help Age staff as the elderly people told to our staff that they cant afford to queue or travel to long journey in search for relief food and wait for it as there has been no allocated relief programs to those vulnerable elderly people in the IDP camps or anywhere else in Somalia since the civil war and famine started in Somalia in 1991.
Somali Help Age will continue to help support the old-aged people in Somalia.
Source:
Somali Help Age
Mogadishu Office