In this update: WFP has leveraged a network of partners with complementary expertise in water, sanitation and development communication to reinforce and integrate school health and nutrition.
Jamilla Hassan’s family once lived off rich farmland in the Lower Juba region of south-west Somalia. But a severe drought from five poor rainy seasons left them staring at empty grain stores and dusty fields littered with carcasses of livestock, once their source of meat and milk.
“We haven’t been able to harvest enough grain to feed ourselves for the past two years,” says Jamilla.