Somalia

Hibak redeems her WFP vouchers. Copyright: WFP / Susannah Nicol

Camel meat? What a treat!

In Somaliland, thousands more people are getting fresh meat as part of their diet as the direct result of WFP using vouchers. The vouchers are being provided as the family ration to households who have a malnourished child enrolled in the Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme. Local traders are seeing the benefits we well as the money is ploughed back into their ecomony. Added to that, the number of children being brought for screening has risen, so it's a win-win stuation all round...

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Overview

Gripped by drought and racked by conflict for 20 years, Somalia is perhaps the most challenging environment in the world for humanitarian operations. Nonetheless, since famine was declared by the FSNAU and FEWS NET in July 2011, WFP has scaled up its operations and reached 1.5 million vulnerable people, many of them women and children. WFP has been working in Puntland, Somaliland, central regions and Mogadishu, as well as in border areas of the south.