{"id":3545,"date":"2019-09-21T07:19:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2019-09-21T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:19:34","slug":"feeble-goats-left-to-die-on-a-trek-to-river-in-drought-hit-burdubo-in-gedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/09\/21\/feeble-goats-left-to-die-on-a-trek-to-river-in-drought-hit-burdubo-in-gedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeble goats left to die on a trek to river in drought-hit Burdubo in Gedo"},"content":{"rendered":"

GARBA HAREY (SoOHA) –<\/strong> Like many Somali herders desperate to save their drought-hit livestock from death, Hassan Hared Omar had been carrying his most feeble goats on his back on the 32 km walk to the river Juba from their village in the southwestern district of Burdhubo.<\/p>\n

The only borehole in Hassan\u2019s village of Dhidid dried up some weeks ago. Last month, two of his donkeys and five goats died from lack of water. His herd of 100 goats is down to just 60 due to the prolonged drought.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first we used to carry the one or two animals that were not able to walk to the river,\u201d Hassan told Radio Ergo. \u201cBut now we are tired as too many are unable to walk. If the rains don\u2019t come this week or some help is not delivered, the livestock will be really in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as he was about to give up, Hassan\u2019s family received five barrels of water from the recently formed drought response committee that is trucking water to the most critically affected villages in parts of the district furthest away from the river.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow, we are relieved. We use this water for drinking and allocate some water for the livestock and some for family use,\u201d said Hassan.<\/p>\n

Burdhubo district commissioner, Hassan Mohamud Ali, told Radio Ergo they have made 15 deliveries of water to 1,500 families in seven villages in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

The planning began in July when the administration formed the drought response committee to work with local traders and the diaspora community to collect financial contributions. Whilst Burdubo town sits on the river Juba, the outlying villages have suffered badly from water shortage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have spent $3,000\u00a0to transport water to those areas. Our target is the most seriously affected areas in the district.\u00a0The authorities are working on ways to save lives in these drought-hit areas,\u201d the commissioner said.<\/p>\n

He said they aim to continue water trucking until the expected rains come in the next two months.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Nur Abdi in Washaqa-dar village said he had to abandon 15 weak goats on the way to the river because they could not walk any further.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to buy two barrels [of water] after every three days but later on we could not afford that. \u00a0On our way to the river, if any animal fails to walk, we leave it there because we cannot carry them,\u201d Mohamed told Radio Ergo.<\/p>\n

Mohamed\u2019s family of 11 children are eking out the three barrels of water they received from the authorities. But the water is almost finished.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Dhore Hassan, a trader in Burdhubo and an organizer of the water trucking, said more contributions were needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have urged business people to contribute some money. You will all be called on to contribute something to save these needy people!\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

The villages targeted for water deliveries are El-waran, Bay-Gadud, Washaqa-dar, Wel-del, Qaydo, Dhidid and Aro-Dubo.<\/p>\n

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

GARBA HAREY (SoOHA) – Like many Somali herders desperate to save their drought-hit livestock from death, Hassan Hared Omar had been carrying his most feeble goats on his back on the 32 km walk to the river Juba from their village in the southwestern district of Burdhubo. The only borehole in Hassan\u2019s village of Dhidid …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}