Thirst Surrounded Somali Idps Burhecba

And Sheikh Ali Youssef said the island, “Everyone here is suffering from a severe shortage of water, civilian population and displaced them,” pointing out that this is the first time that the population of the area where the water crisis.

Expensive water
And the effects of drought, rising water prices are insane according to accounts of residents of the island, with an estimated price of a barrel by about one hundred thousand Somali shillings (about three U.S. dollars) and the price was before the crisis of drought, about one dollar only.

Says Eve Osman, a mother of four children of the island, “I can not get on the water, because its price has risen through the roof, and better able to bring him from a distance,” she says that God saved her life and the lives of her children by obtaining a small amount of water a week ago with the support of the Association Hanin charity.
 
But she “Nhsalh water that is not enough .. we promise to our children only food, and drink it, but other needs have no place for it.”

The Society began nostalgia in collaboration with the charitable trust for the welfare of the nation – and the British-based – relief efforts to alleviate the suffering of those affected by the drought.

The head of the Association of nostalgia charity Mohammed Yasin, “water the day about a thousand people from the Burhecba,” and added that the families benefiting from their relief is able to fetch water from remote areas do not possess the means of transport, first, and the difficult living conditions for poor families second.

He said they were transferred from the village water tank Danonye km from the city about 40 miles north.

The suffering of the displaced
In addition to the water crisis faced by all the conditions of displaced people to the city a more severe of the population, degradation of daily living is the title of that tragedy and to the extent not imagined, as their stories of the island.

Has established the Young Mujahideen Movement camps on the eastern side of the city to house the two thousand and one hundred families.

The camp includes Abu Bakr, about a thousand and one hundred families, with an estimated population of camp, Othman bin Affan five hundred households, and 500 families between the two camps just arrived, and the common denominator among them is the denial of a decent life.

Racing and population to each of the two camps visited by they might get him to drink water, or food to save their lives, or the milk back a smile to their children.

Aisha Mohammed and describe the conditions of the displaced, saying the island, “their stomachs empty, and their eyes fixed on, and Vagrh their mouths, their hands raised to God to ask for help and emergency assistance.”

Says Ms. Matan good “our lives are harsh, and our situation has deteriorated, and the fate of starvation, has brought drought upon us, to be destroyed, have turned to the city Burhecba, and starvation with us”, and indicated they received food three weeks ago, consisting of rice, flour, oil , sugar, however, saying it is “run out of supply that is it Agatna.”

As Ms. Noria Adam Ali, a mother of eight children, and suffer like the other families living in the camp was not able to sit down with their children who are starving Vatjht to the city to ask for a living for her children but returned empty-handed, says of the island that her daughter auspicious infected with cholera, and the rest as well as Ieonon of malnutrition.

Talk about hitting the health services of the imagination, it established them baths, and local medical staff, or Arab, or foreign drifted, cholera preys on children, Hsabhm hunger, disease, and thirst.

Dilapidated houses
The Vmthalkh homes, made of local materials, have been hastily erected apparently, size is small, can only accommodate three people, not protect them against the hot sun as the city’s novel Mrs. Hassan.

According to the island, “we sit down and spend the night in the open for five days and wait for help from God” and confirmed that it had not received anything yet.

For its part, Ms. Habiba teacher knock the alarm, one of the families that arrived this week to the camp and says “we have been here for three days, without food or water, no medicine, our destiny is death by starvation, we want Igattna off.”