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Nimo* (not her real name) is a fifteen year-old bright and well-spoken young lady, a pupil at a local school in Baidoa, South West State of Somalia. Roughly 356 boys and 359 girls attend this school. Save the Children supports the school to cater for children who drop out of school due to early marriage, often times arranged by their parents and/or guardians against their will.

In a bustling street in camp shabelle, 40-year old Bullo Rasas, is selling tea and pancakes in a small cafeteria. She is a mother of six children and lives in a settlement for Internally Displaced People (IDP) in Bossaso.

Save the Children has donated two boat ambulances to the Ministry of Health in Puntland to support the ministry’s efforts in increasing access to health facilities and saving lives for communities in coastal towns of Bari region particularly pregnant women and children. 

 Somali families displaced by drought and near-famine conditions last year are now on the move again, as catastrophic flash flooding has forced 175,000^[1] people from their homes, leaving them more vulnerable to malnutrition and diseases such as cholera.

Somalia’s two major rivers are affected, with the River Shabelle rising at an unprecedented rate of almost four metres in less than a week during April. 427,000 are people affected in Somalia alone.