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Thousands walk for days in search of water
The early morning sun dries up any drops of water that can be found in local wells, forcing parched, starving inhabitants to take to the roads. Kenyans spend between Kr 40 and TL 1 for containers of water that they then carry all the way back home.
Thousands of people walk for days with the only goal of finding a bit of water to drink and clothes to cover their bodies before finding the Dadaab Refugee Camp, one of the refugee camps on the Kenyan-Somali border. The camp consists of thousands of makeshift tents set up by people fighting the battle of hunger and thirst by their own means.
Many of the children in the camp die from malnutrition and other diseases. Some of the camp inhabitants survived by eating tree leaves and shells, according to the Anatolia report.
According to the East Africa Report by the Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH), people living in the Horn of Africa are struggling to fulfill basic needs as they face the most serious drought in 60 years.
The report says Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti especially have been the scene of the severest drought. Nearly 12 million people are at risk of malnutrition.
Before outreach teams left for Kenya to help inhabitants like those at the Dadaab Refugee Camp, İHH board member Hüseyin Oruç said: “A food crisis in recent months, impacting the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, threatens half of the country's 10 million inhabitants. These regions have been the site of mass migration and movement. If there is no intervention in the next two months, all of Somalia, northern Kenya and the eastern regions of Ethiopia will fall victim to the food crisis.”
Oruç, emphasizing the great exhibition of political will and aid from Turkey for Somalia, said Turkey is demonstrating leadership in this humanitarian crisis.
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