A newly arrived Somali refugee child awaits medical examinations at the Dadaab refugee camp. | Photo © AP
Social Economic Development Of Women & Dependants, SEDO, is a non-profit, non-governmental and voluntary organization founded in late 2017; networking mainly in Mid-Juba and Lower Juba regions of Somalia. The organization started through engaging and familiarizing with local activities in rural communities in response to the continuous effects of civil war, famine, drought and natural disasters which have ravaged the Somali people over the years.
SEDO aims to provide humanitarian services at community level by engaging the low-income and disadvantaged communities who are exposed to increasing economic risks, besides facing the hard consequences of natural disasters and climate change. There is enormous pressure on the typical Somali bread winner to provide for the basic needs notwithstanding the harsh socio-economic environment in which most families must survive. The recurring spells of drought and famine, disease outbreaks and floods every year have over time damaged arable/agricultural land, destroyed livestock, displaced biodiversity, reduced productive human health and demolished habitation.
These unfortunate recurring episodes increase the vulnerability of poor communities, fracturing their sources of income and undermining their sustainability practices. Further to this, these communities, time and again, adopt unsustainable income-generation activities which are characterized by unskilled labor, inadequate planning, inaccessible markets due to high insecurity and poor coping strategies.
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