About Somalia
Hinda
Hinda, who fled the Somali capital Mogadishu in 2007 and remains displaced within her own country, told UNHCR staff that she lives “in a squalid shelter that was lent to me by a kindly woman while she is away looking for family members in Mogadishu. She is going to come back soon. My children will have to sleep outside under the rain as I have no money and my husband died.”
Hoda
Hoda plans to make the dangerous journey from Somalia across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, despite knowing that her husband may have died making the same trip. "I left Mogadishu with my husband and our children one year ago because people told us that Yemen was a good place to live and that, once there, we could reach Saudi Arabia where we could find jobs easily," said Hoda, who lives in a settlement for internally displaced people in Bossasso, northern Somalia. "When we arrived here, we could afford only one seat on the smuggler's boat, so my husband went first. He was supposed to send me money so that I could join him with our children. That was seven months ago."
Ali
Ali fled Somalia with his wife and five children in April 2006 to the Awbarr camp in Ethiopia, where UNHCR is providing emergency aid, including tents, to thousands of Somali refugees. “I fled from southern Somalia, where there was arbitrary killing and banditry. It took about 10 days to reach the border. There was continuous conflict between different armed groups. There is no light at the end of the tunnel in Somalia.”
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Residents of the Garsor camp in north-Somalia collect garbage from town residents and deposit along the edges of their settlement. There are aprox. 511 households in Garsor. Fire has destroyed this camp three times, most recently in 2006. The camp is situated on private land and residents pay a small rent to a land lord. They also pay for water that is trucked to the site.
