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Widespread malnutrition among Somali refugees requires immediate action 

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Nine month old Zakariah Guled is receiving treatment against severe malnutrition. © UNHCR/R. Gangale

Relentless violence inside Somalia, compounded by devastating drought, has forced more than a quarter of Somalia’s people to flee their home areas, “turning one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises into a human tragedy of unimaginable proportions,” according to António Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.


Since January, our teams have been seeing a sharp increase in the number of refugees crossing into Kenya and Ethiopia as well as unprecedented levels of malnutrition among the new arrivals. In Ethiopia alone, more than 50 per cent of the Somali children arriving are seriously malnourished.


We cannot look away from this human tragedy and suffering. With your help, we will be able to do more. Your gift will help UNHCR provide high energy biscuits, medical treatment, shelter and emergency support to these new arrivals.


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In Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp complex, where people are arriving at a rate of 1,400 per day, UNHCR and its partners are distributing high energy biscuits for instant calories and micronutrients. © UNHCR/R. Gangale

How you can help
£5
£5 provides ready-to-use Therapeutic Food for a malnourished refugee child.

£31
£31 provides a therapeutic feeding kit, which helps feed five children.

£62
£62 provides a refugee with a survival kit containing a blanket, a mattress, a kitchen set, a stove and soap.

£124
£124 provides an all-weather tent to shelter a displaced family.
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