Hiiraan Online
Friday, July 22, 2011
The private
sector in Somali on Friday joined the ongoing relief efforts in aid of millions
of drought-displaced families in parts of Southern Somalia.
Hormuud
Telecom, one of Somalia’s leading telecommunication companies distributed humanitarian
food assistance to drought victims in the restive capital Mogadishu.
The telecommunication
company targeted some 6000 Households in its initial stage of relief
distribution at Mogadishu’s bulging IDP camps that are jam-packed on daily
basis by fleeing families from devastated regions of Somalia.
The company’s aid package included an
assortment of food rations and were given to worst-hit families in the two
camps of Wadajir and Waberi districts within the capital Mogadishu
According to
officials of the company the food aid composed of 25kg rice and a few liters of
cooking oil is expected to keep each family for some day as drought bites severely
in the country.
The IDPs have hailed
the move by Hormuud, a company established in April 2002 in Somalia, and has
since been engaged in some form of cooperate social responsibility.
Officials of the
company also told the local media that it aims to bring in more aid this time
to Shabelle region where the crippling drought condition is severely biting
residents.
The donation
of the aid food by Hormuud Company is a part of local and international efforts
to mitigate a compounding crisis resulted by several seasons of failed rains
and an endless conflict in Somalia where UN declared famine in some parts.