Harakat Al-Shabaab Army distributed gifts and food to 10,000 children

For Immediate Release

Army’s Gradual Feeding Program nourishes 10,000 children

Mogadishu (05/09/2011) – With the huge influx of displaced people, particularly young children, into Aala-Yaasir camp in the Islamic Administration of Lower Shabeelle, Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen’s army distributed gifts and food parcels to over 10,000 children in the camp.

Convoys of trucks carrying tons of food aid followed the army to Aala-Yaasir camp in K-50 to distribute food to the thousands of children staying at the camp. The army initiated a gradual feeding program that is aimed to save the Somali children from malnutrition. Distributing the food to the children, a senior Military commander said:

‘The food that we have brought here today is intended to feed up to 10,000 children in this camp and this is the first of a series of similar programs that we expect will nourish the vulnerable children and those who are at risk of acute malnutrition in the various camps administered by the Mujahideen in Southern Somalia.

The packages we have distributed now consist of cans of powdered milk, dates, therapeutic biscuits and sweets.’

Sponsored and promoted by the army, the gradual feeding program is being implemented in conjunction with the Mujahideen’s Drought Relief Team (DRT) that oversees the aid operations in all the camps in Southern Somalia.

Aala-Yaasir camp, run and administered by Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen, is the largest camp in Southern Somalia. Due to the high level of safety and security that prevails in the camp as well as in the regions under the administration of the Mujahideen in general, thousands of displaced families are flocking to Aala-Yaasir daily. in the months of July and August alone, more than 2400 families have fled the IDP camps in Mogadishu and have been resettled in Aala-Yaasir.

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