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02/03/2026

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FI Distribution to Drought-Displaced Families in Banadir Region With support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Common Pipeline, MEAL has successfully distributed 2,500 Non-Food Item (NFI) kits to 2,500 drought-displaced households in the Banadir Region. This assistance provided...

15/02/2026

15/02/2026

MEAL Hosted Somali NGO Consortium Monthly Coordination Meeting
📅 12 February 2026

On 12 February 2026, MEAL had the honor of hosting the Somali NGO Consortium Monthly Coordination Meeting at our meeting hall.

The session brought together partners and stakeholders to strengthen collaboration, share updates, and discuss key humanitarian and development priorities affecting vulnerable communities across Somalia. Coordination remains essential to improving effectiveness, avoiding duplication, and ensuring that assistance reaches those who need it most.

We are proud to provide a platform that promotes partnership, transparency, and collective action among NGOs working toward sustainable impact.

Thank you to all participants for your active engagement and continued commitment to serving communities with dedication and integrity.

🤝 Stronger Together for Greater Impact



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26/01/2026

Today, MEAL – Mission for Emergency Aid & Lifesaving participated in the 2026 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) Launch (Hybrid) held at PALMS Hotel – AAIA, Mogadishu, under the leadership of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator and the Federal Government of Somalia, alongside humanitarian partners, donors, UN agencies, INGOs, and Somali NGOs.

The HRP launch is an important milestone to highlight the urgent humanitarian needs across Somalia and to strengthen collaboration, coordination, and resource mobilization for life-saving response in 2026.

MEAL reaffirms its commitment to:
✅ Delivering life-saving humanitarian assistance
✅ Strengthening Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)
✅ Supporting localization and community-led response
✅ Enhancing resilience through integrated Health, Nutrition, WASH and Protection-sensitive programming

We thank all partners and stakeholders for continuous collaboration to reach the most vulnerable communities across Somalia.

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27/12/2025

Silent Rivers, Starving Communities

The drying of the Juba and Shabelle rivers is more than an environmental shock—it is a growing humanitarian emergency.

As water disappears, crops fail, livestock are lost, and families are pushed into hunger and displacement. Children and vulnerable households are paying the highest price, with limited access to food, safe water, and sustainable livelihoods.

This crisis is driven by prolonged drought, climate change, and fragile water systems. Its impact is happening now and will worsen without urgent, coordinated action.

At MEAL, we are working alongside affected communities to respond to immediate needs while advocating for long-term, climate-resilient solutions. Protecting water sources is not optional—it is essential to saving lives and safeguarding Somalia’s future.

When water disappears, hunger follows — and lives are at risk.




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CARE UNFPA Somalia IOM - UN Migration UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe UK in Somalia

22/12/2025

🌍 Drought, Displacement, and the Fight for Dignity

Prolonged drought in South & Central regions has devastated livelihoods, wiping out harvests, killing livestock, and forcing families to flee in search of survival. Newly displaced households are now living in fragile, makeshift shelters in Mogadishu and its corridors—constructed from collected clothes, mats, and scraps—without access to adequate assistance or protection.

Today, the MEAL team is registering newly displaced households using KOBO Single Registration Forms (SRF) to ensure they are identified and included in humanitarian response. Behind every registration is a story of loss, resilience, and urgent unmet needs—especially for women-led households, who face increased protection risks due to unsafe shelter, lack of privacy, and absence of basic household items.

With support from the IOM Common Pipeline, MEAL is providing plastic sheets as an immediate, life-saving response to help improve shelter safety. We sincerely thank IOM for this critical support, which comes at a time of acute need for newly displaced families.

However, plastic sheets alone are not enough. These households urgently require:

• Full Non-Food Item (NFI) kits to live with dignity

• Livelihood support to rebuild self-reliance

• Protection services, particularly for women and girls facing heightened risks

At MEAL, we continue to advocate for comprehensive, protection-centered, and sustainable humanitarian interventions that go beyond temporary relief and address the root causes of vulnerability.

📢 Displacement is not a choice. Survival should not come without dignity.



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16/12/2025

Ending FGM Requires Collective Action, Survivor-Centered Services, and Sustained Investment

Female Ge***al Mutilation (FGM) remains a harmful practice that violates the rights, health, and dignity of women and girls in Somalia. At the Mission for Emergency Aid & Lifesaving (MEAL), we are committed to ending FGM through prevention, protection, and survivor-centered service delivery.

MEAL operates GBV Stop Centers and community-based programs in Mogadishu, Galgaduud, Bakool, and Hirshabelle, providing comprehensive support to women and girls affected by FGM and other forms of gender-based violence. Our services include confidential case management, psychosocial support, safe referrals to health and legal services, community awareness, and engagement with religious and community leaders to challenge harmful norms and protect girls at risk.

We believe that FGM prevention must be community-led, multisectoral, and adequately funded. MEAL actively contributes to national and regional efforts to end FGM by strengthening coordination, supporting survivor voices, and aligning our interventions with national policies and action plans.

We call upon donors, development partners, government institutions, UN agencies, and civil society organizations to invest in sustainable FGM prevention, GBV response services, and women- and girl-centered protection systems. Together, we can scale impact, strengthen survivor services, and accelerate the abandonment of FGM.

FGM can end. Survivors deserve care. Girls deserve protection.




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15/12/2025

📍 From Drought to Displacement: A Story Repeated Too Often

This photo captures the harsh reality faced by newly displaced families living in bush-made shelters constructed from collected clothes and mats. In front of one such shelter sits a newly displaced woman and her disabled child from Bakool, forced to flee after prolonged drought destroyed her harvest and claimed her livestock—her only source of survival.

Like thousands of others, she arrived in Mogadishu searching for safety and a chance to rebuild her life. Yet, until now, she has not received any humanitarian assistance.

Today, MEAL’s enumerator is registering her details using KOBO Single Registration Form (SRF) in preparation for the distribution of plastic sheets, a critical first step toward improving shelter conditions and reducing exposure to protection risks.

We sincerely thank IOM and the Common Pipeline for their support in providing plastic sheets, which offer immediate relief for newly displaced households. However, this situation also highlights a critical gap:
👉 Plastic sheets alone are not enough.

Displaced families urgently need full NFI kits, livelihood support to restore self-reliance, and protection services—especially for women and girls who face heightened risks in informal settlements.

At MEAL, we continue to advocate for integrated, dignity-centered humanitarian responses that go beyond emergency shelter to address long-term survival, protection, and resilience.

🤝 No family should be left to survive displacement alone.

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14/12/2025

📋 Registration Continues | Women Leading Humanitarian Action

Beneficiary registration is still ongoing, with MEAL’s female enumerators continuing to register vulnerable households using the Single Registration Form (SRF) to ensure accurate, transparent, and dignified access to assistance.

As a women-led organization, MEAL is proud to promote 75% women’s inclusivity across all its programs, recognizing that women’s leadership and participation are essential to effective, accountable, and protection-sensitive humanitarian response.

Through women-centered approaches, we ensure that the voices of displaced women, girls, and female-headed households are heard, respected, and prioritized—especially in contexts of displacement, eviction, and protection risk.

💪🏽 When women lead, communities are stronger.



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13/12/2025

🚨 Responding to Recurrent Displacement and Protection Risks in Mogadishu

New internal displacements and forced evictions continue to be a recurrent humanitarian reality, pushing already vulnerable families into unsafe living conditions with limited access to basic services. In informal settlements, women and girls face heightened risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) due to overcrowding, lack of privacy, poor shelter, and inadequate non-food items.

Evidence from humanitarian protection assessments consistently shows that the absence of essential household items and safe shelter increases exposure to exploitation, abuse, and negative coping mechanisms, particularly for displaced women, adolescent girls, and female-headed households.

In response, MEAL, in partnership with the IOM Common Pipeline, is providing life-saving Non-Food Item (NFI) assistance to vulnerable households affected by displacement and eviction in Daynile and Kahda districts. This support aims to restore dignity, improve household safety, and mitigate protection risks by ensuring access to essential items needed for daily survival.

At MEAL, we recognize that timely NFI assistance is not only relief—it is protection. We remain committed to advocating for durable solutions, protection-centered responses, and the rights of displaced communities to live in safety and dignity.

🤝 Together, we stand with displaced families and work to reduce risks, save lives, and protect the most vulnerable.



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World Food Programme
UNICEF Somalia
IOM - UN Migration
SODMA Somalia
CARE
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

10/12/2025

🌍 International Human Rights Day | 10 December 2025🌍

Today, we join the world in reaffirming a simple but powerful truth: every human being is born with equal dignity and equal rights.

As we mark this important day, we stand in solidarity with vulnerable communities across Somalia — especially women, girls, people with disabilities, displaced families, and all those whose rights are too often overlooked or violated.

At MEAL, we believe that human rights are not just words on paper — they are lived realities.
They are safety.
They are opportunity.
They are dignity.
They are justice.

Our commitment is clear:
➡️ To amplify the voices of the marginalized
➡️ To protect the rights of women and girls
➡️ To expand access to life-saving services
➡️ To advance equality, inclusion, and accountability
➡️ To ensure no one is left behind

Human rights are universal, non-negotiable, and timeless.
Together, we can build a Somalia where every person lives free from violence, discrimination, and fear — and free to fulfill their potential.

✨ Human Rights Are for Everyone. Always.



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