HOW COVID-19 IS AFFECTING PREGNANT WOMEN AND THEIR CHOICE FOR DELIVERY OPTIONS IN KISMAYO.
Seynab attends her last ANC visit at Iskufilan MCH in Kismayo. SAF-UK midwife. Ardo Abdullahi is in charge of her case 28 May 2020– Seynab Abdulahi is preparing herself to welcome her third child. She is nine months pregnant and is anxious about bringing her child into a world ravaged by the COVID 19 pandemic […]
TAKING CARE : A SUCCESSFUL HOME VISIT AFTER DELIVERY IN DALXISKA ,KISMAYO DISTRICT
Midwife Habibo asks Hafxo about her delivery experience and is pleased that Hafxo did not have complications. She then tenderly cleans the baby girl while checking her. After which she administers the first round vaccination. She then weighs the baby and records in her official notebook for record keeping.
Delivering Hope To Pregnant Women In Remote Villages in Hobyo District, Somalia
Delivering Hope To Pregnant Women In Remote Villages in Hobyo District, Somalia Farhiye Qasim Said, 36 and mother of 12 is a happy woman now that she has delivered a healthy baby at the SAF-UK Bandiiradley health facility. This has not always been the case. She has suffered tremendous loss over the years after losing 3 of her children. Farhiye’s baby […]
HOW BEHAVIOUR CHANGE CAN REDUCE MALNUTRITION AMONG CHILDREN IN IDP CAMPSIN SOMALIA
Malnutrition is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality worldwide Each year, more than 5.9 million children under the age of five die around the world; 45% of these deaths are attributed to malnutrition. Somalia is among the countries with the highest prevalence of malnutrition in children under the age of five years. Siteey […]
DOUBLE TRAGEDY: SAF-UK empowers a mother to save her twins from malnutrition
POSTED AUGUST 1, 2019 MEDIA@SAFUK.ORG Malnutritioned child eating Ready To Use Therapeutic Food Kahda,Mogadishu June 2019– A look of permanent worry is etched on the face of Roodo Issack, a mother of six, as she watches her last born twins silently suffering; their bodies emaciated and skin hanging from bare bones. As she sits outside her ramshackle […]
SHF SUPPORTING SAF-UK HEALTH AND NUTRITION PROJECTS IN HOBYO DISTRICT
The health situation in Hobyo remains fragile with women and children being most vulnerable. The key issues for women and children remain access to prevention and treatment interventions in the absence of a fully functional health system. SAF UK has been implementing nutrition (OTP, TSFP, MCHN and BSFP) and health projects in north Hobyo for […]
HOW SAF-UK IS IMPROVING NUTRITION OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN IDP CAMPS IN KISMAYO.
Like any other IDP camp across the world, living conditions of Dalxiska are desperate and tough. Lack of adequate nutritious food coupled with unsanitary sources of drinking water from the wells in the camps daily put the lives of children living there in danger. “Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental […]
BRINGING MATERNAL HEALTHCARE TO THE PEOPLE LIVING IN IDP CAMPS IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOMALIA
When Amino Abdi Mohamed gave birth to her first child 8 years ago, maternal health care services in JAMAME region which is 60km away from Kismayo were non-existent. She lost her first born baby girl because of lack of maternal health care since the nearest health care center was located in Kismayo. Unfortunately, stories like this are all too common. Women […]
SAVING SAFIA: Fighting Worm Infestation in Children in Somalia
Somalia is a country reeling from decades of conflict, drought and famine. More than 1 million people are facing certain calamity with a fragile humanitarian situation occasioned by massive human displacement driven by war and worsened by regular drought. Safia Bashir, 7 and her family fled their home in Jamame district in Lower Juba region […]
Education & Youth Empowerment
SAFUK is determined to empower women in every target population through the proactive selection of women as project staff, Community Development Committees (CDCs) members and Community Workers (CWs). The participation of women in the community development will help to promote gender issues as community priorities. The presence of female CWs will also aid the dissemination […]
