We hope everyone will feel the pain and suffering the people of East Africa are enduring today. Every life matters and every child matters, with over 29000 Children under the age of 5 confirmed dead as a result of the drought which turned into a famine, we must all take action and contribute towards the work of those on the ground struggling to support the 12 million people affected in the region.

What you can do to help?
1) Donate: every penny donated will make a difference and 100% will go direct to supporting the essential needs we have identified.
2) Volunteer: we need volunteers with any skill and in any location, we are currently in midst of creating city representatives, please contact us if you wish to the representative of your city.
3) Learn More: if you are unable to do the above please educate yourself about the severity of the situation read this website and other websites, to help educate and inform those around you and your community. Please remember every little helps.

Please take action, no matter how small.

We are currently selling wristbands to fundraise for the Dagahaley Burial and Funeral Committees, all those selling the wristbands are volunteers that are giving their time and effort to support the need for the burial committee to buy the basic essentials to enable them to bury people that are dying within the camps and outskirts of the camp.

Every wristband sold will help us to help the situation facing the people in the Great East Africa Famine, current sales are going towards the help of the basic burial tools.  To buy the Help East Africa Drought wristbands please contact us now on 07818723789.

- Monday 8th August 4 children
- Tuesday 9th August 3 children
- Wednesday 10th august 5 children
- Thursday 11th august 3 children and old woman of 67 years old
- Friday 12th august 5 children
- Saturday 13th august 3 children and a boy of 19 year old
- Sunday 14th august 2 children

Overall, the week monitored we have a confirmation that 25 Children, 19 year old boy and a mother aged 67 years old have died and supported by the committee..

The above is an example of the extent of need in the camp.

Please help the group of refugees in the camp that are working hard to support the new refugees, all the committee is currently asking for and desperately needs is burial tools. Please help.

The image in this post is by Brendan Bannon (photojournalist), who after a recent visit to the Dagahaley taken the image, Boston new stories has explained the image to be: ” Fresh graves in Dagahaley, part of the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp. Tens of thousands of Somali refugees have fled to Kenya. Many arrive in the refugee camp exhausted and malnourished after a perilous journey from drought and war torn Somalia. Hundreds have died in the camp as a consequence of malnutrition.”

idil@midaye.org.uk
(+44) 7818723789

Midaye Somali Development Network appeals for all to support the Dagahaley (Dadaab) Burial and Funeral Welfare Comittees. This committee is currently desperate for burial tools. The following is a transcript from the committee, sent by the Abdullahi (Youth chairman) who grew up in the camp and now supports the deaths of the new refugee arriving into the camp. Dagahaley is one of the camps experiencing high influx of new refugees, the residents have gathered to create this committee.

This committee were formed on first August 2011 to deal with the high number of people dying. the community leaders have noticed that many people especially children under 5 are dying at dagahaley outskirt (where the new arrival/influx live) due to out break of measles and other diseases. the committee comprises of 9 executive board and 23 monitors.

The following are the BOARD MEMBERS of the newly formed Dagahaley Burial and Funeral welfare committee. They comprise well known sheikhs, community and youth leaders. The committee is headed by the Dagahaley khadi and its activities are coordinated by the youth chairman.

NAMES TITLE

SHEIKH SHAMSUDIN (CHAIRMAN)
AHMED IBRAHIM BURALE (SECRETARY)
SHEIKH MOHAMED AMIN (TREASURER)
SHEIKH HUSSEIN (MEMBER)
ABDIFATAH AHMED ISMAIL (MEMBER)
ZEINAB MOHAMED HASSAN (MEMBER)
BASHIR AHMED BIHI (MEMBER)
HABIBA ABDIRAHMAN MURSAL (SUPERVISOR)
ABDULLAHI HUSSEIN SHEIKH (CO-ORDINATOR)

The committee has representatives from all the sections in the camp and also at the outskirt. The following are the monitors from the sections and also the outskirt of the camp.

Names sections

MOHAMED HASSAN DAKANE (SECTION A)
MOHAMED ABDI HASSN (SECTION B)
ABDIWALI HUSSEIN FARAH (SECTION C)
BARE OSMAN ABDI (SECTION D)
IBRAHIM ABDI HAJI (SECTION E)
ABDIADENBILLE (SECTION F)
IFRAH MOHAMED (SECTION G)
ADOW SHEIKHADEN (SECTION H)
MOHAMED SULUB HASSAN (SECTION NB)
ABDIKADIR HUSSEIN BULE (CLUSTER 1)
ALI OSMAN OMAR (CLUSTER 2)
KHADIJA ABDULLAHI KHALIF (CLUSTER 3)
KHALIF ISMAIL DAKANE (CLUSTER 4)
YUSSUF (CLUSTER 5)
ABDI SHEIKHOW (CLUSTER 6)
ISSACK (CLUSTER 7)
ABDIKARIM (CLUSTER 8 )
AWEYS ALI IBRAHIM (CLUSTER 9)

The following represent the minority communities/other nationalities

NAME NATIONALITY

GLADS GABA (SUDAN)
MOHAMED GIRMA FARTOLE (ETHIOPIA)
SENAY GEBRISH (ERITREA)
MOHAMED AHMED HAJIR (SOMALI BANTU)
MOHAMED ABAY (OGADEN)

we wish the other camps to take the initiative to organize and come up with this good activity.

Ramadan Kareem God help those who help themselves.

Abdullahi Hussein Sheikh,
Dagahaley Youth Chairman

What to do?

Please take baby food, baby milk. rice, flour (all types of flour) or any other food you can to help the Children and all those stuck in the drought hit region.

Where to take your food to:
448 HOE STREET, WOLTHAMSTOW, LONDON E17 9AH.

Deadline:
Please make sure you take food to the address above by this Thursday (25 August 2011) 4:00pm.

The IPC uses five phases to classify the different levels of food insecurity:

• Level one – is generally food secure;
• Level two – is moderately/borderline food insecure;
• Level three refers to an acute food and livelihood crisis;
• Level four – is a humanitarian emergency – severe lack of food access, death due to hunger, malnutrition and irreversible livestock asset stripping;
• Level five – famine or humanitarian catastrophe – occurs when there is a complete lack of food access and mass starvation, death and displacement.

The crisis in Somalia will have an increasingly devastating effect on other countries in the region. there are currently 11.5 million people affected by the crisis in the Horn of Africa, in Somalia alone there are 3.7 million in people (half of the Somali population). The number is increasing on a daily basis, with thousands of Somalis fleeing to Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti every day. Already over 78,000 Somalis have fled from southern Somalia in search of food and livelihoods in the last two months (61,000 in June alone). Somalia, the epicentre of the regional crisis, could further affect the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa region, if humanitarian relief aid does not reach people in southern Somalia immediately.

Children in Somalia are suffering some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world

During the first three months of 2011, nearly 50,000 Somali refugees were registered as they crossed the borders to Kenya, Ethiopia, and Yemen. This is more than twice as many refugees fleeing compared to the same period last year. In Kenya, the world’s largest refugee camp is now housing more than 320,000 people. It continues to grow and has by far reached the limits

(Source: Danish Refugee Council)

Somalia drought leaves one in four children hungry – UN

According to Ismlamic relief:
£14 can provide a child with high energy food supplements for a week
£50 can provide clean water to 1000 people
£100 can provide emergency food to 100 families per day
£150 can treat 10 malnourished children for a month

The food crisis in Somalia has left millions of children hungry, thirsty and desperate. Without help, thousands are expected to die. There is already 29000 children under the age of five reported to have died in the last 90 days.