GOAL has received a $1.5 million grant from the US Government for its nutrition programmes at refugee camps in the Somali region of Ethiopia.
The funding from the US Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM) will help fund the organisation’s work at Dollo Ado camps, where thousands of Somali refugees are located.
This is the first time that BPRM, an agency of the US State Department, has partnered GOAL.
Commenting on the grant, GOAL’s acting Chief Operations Officer, Jonathan Edgar, said:
“We are delighted that BPRM had made such a substantial grant to our work at the Dollo Ado camps. This funding will help GOAL save lives and deliver comfort to the many thousands of refugees who have been forced to leave their homes in Somalia.
“GOAL has been at Dollo Ado since 2011, responding to the effects of the Horn of Africa drought crisis. Currently, we are providing nutrition services in Buramino camp, where approximately 30,000 refugees are located. We are treating more than 11,000 children, pregnant and lactating women in our feeding programmes, and have reached in excess of 15,500 people to date.”
Dollo Ado is one of a number of refugee camps in the Horn of Africa which cater to the needs of people fleeing conflict and an on-going drought crisis in Somalia. Upwards of nine million people are affected across the region.
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