{"id":2832,"date":"2019-04-30T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2019-05-02T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:42:49","slug":"second-generation-of-births-in-idp-camp-in-galkayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/04\/30\/second-generation-of-births-in-idp-camp-in-galkayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Second generation of births in IDP camp in Galkayo"},"content":{"rendered":"

GALKAYO (SoOHA) –<\/strong> In part three of our series on life in Somalia\u2019s IDP camps, Radio Ergo meets a displaced woman whose daughter and grandson were born in the same camp in Galkayo.\u00a0 The internal displacement crisis has endured across three generations in this family and many other families, who have little opportunity of escape to a better life.<\/p>\n

When Shadiyo Ahmed Awale arrived in Kulmiye camp in Galkayo fleeing clan conflict near Mogadishu \u2013 pregnant with her second child \u2013 she never imagined she would be raising her grandchildren here almost 20 years later.<\/p>\n

Shadiyo remembers being hugely stressed by a confluence of traumatic events in her life at that time, yet managing to deliver her new baby girl safely thanks to the help of the camp\u2019s only traditional midwife.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband divorced me just months after I conceived my second child and at the same time clashes broke out in where we were in Lafole,\u201d Shadiyo told Radio Ergo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was in 2000. I travelled all the way to this camp and life for a mother like me was miserable.\u201d<\/p>\n

With no husband to support her, Shadiya had to take on casual labour jobs to feed and care for her two children, including baby girl Astur Mohamud.<\/p>\n

\u201cI managed to cover our needs. I set off on the journey to bring up my children because the handouts we received were not enough to feed us,\u201d she said proudly.<\/p>\n

Last year, Shadiya\u2019s daughter Astur started her own family with the birth of a baby boy \u2013 the second generation from this family to be born in the camp.<\/p>\n

What is more, the same midwife who had helped Shadiyo through childbirth was on hand to assist Astur with her labour.<\/p>\n

Sharifo Sheikh Omar has been the only midwife helping mothers in the camp for the last two decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cI helped her mother and then I got the opportunity to help the daughter. I can remember the day she was born just like the day the daughter was delivering,\u201d Sharifo recalled.<\/p>\n

Life in the camp is grueling, however, with a ceaseless struggle to make ends meet on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Astur has barely any education, having been enrolled in a free community primary school near the camp when she was 13, but forced to drop out because her mother could not afford the school uniform.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother had consistent challenges including financial problems,\u201d Astur said. She took domestic work in town to help her mother before meeting her future husband, 20-year-old Abdirisack Mudey Hussein, who was also born in the camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a committed and hard working person,\u201d Astur said. They were married in the camp, in a wedding organised by the families and other residents.<\/p>\n

Abdirisack\u2019s family came to Galkayo after fleeing conflict in Afgoye. He supports his family as well as his young wife and son by working on a construction site.<\/p>\n

\u201cI struggle to feed both families. There are times when I earn nothing, but we survive \u2013 on good days, I get 20,000 shillings ($8),\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Kulmiye camp was set up in 1998 and currently hosts 281 families from different parts of the country.<\/p>\n

Source: Radio Ergo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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