Somalia Emergency

Increasing violence and uncertainty in Somalia have caused a sharp rise in refugee numbers in Kenya. Around 300 Somali refugees have arrived in Kenya every week since the beginning of the year, and are now increasing dramatically. By the end of October, more than a thousand people were making the crossing every day.

Geoff Wordley, Senior Officer with UNHCR's Emergency Response Team is on the ground in Kenya. "We already had a serious situation here, with 32,000 Somalis entering Kenya since January. Now we could be looking at 50,000 by Christmas - and as many as 80,000 in the new year. This would see our supplies and facilities completely overwhelmed - the food supply is not even assured beyond December."

There's growing pressure on resources in the three large refugee camps at Dadaab, but it's the Refugee Transit Centre at the border that is really strained.

Right now UNHCR teams are working to avert a humanitarian crisis on the Kenyan border. UNHCR will also be expanding facilities in the three camps at Dadaab. 

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Your donation can help:

$114 can provide an all season tent to shelter a refugee family of five.

$142 can buy a ‘refugee survival kit' for a family, containing non-food relief items like blankets, a jerry can, plastic sheeting, soap and cooking utensils.

$325 can supply enough blankets to keep 10 families warm at night.

$714 can provide a therapeutic feeding kit for 50 severely malnourished children 

$1044 can provide a complete emergency health kit to meet the general medical needs of 10,000 displaced people for one month

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