Wajaale (XOL) Maamulka Degmada Wajaale ayaa in ka badan Boqol Gaadiidka Dadwaynaha ah ee iskaga goosha Itoobiya iyo Somaliland mudo laba cisho ah ku xanibay magaaladaasi.Talaabada ay Maamulka Degmadu ku joojiyeen Gaadiidkaasi ayaa la sheegay in ay Xanibtay Dadwayne faro badan oo gaadiidkaasi Isticmaali jiray waxaana la sheegay in Dadkii Hargeysa u soo safrayey ku dhibaataysan yihiin Magaaladaasi.Gudoomiyaha Degmada Wajaale Cumar Aadan Qasaali oo aanu wax ka waydiinay in ay jirto arrintaasi ayaa waxa uu ku jawaabay“Way jirtaa arrintaasi waadigaa arkaya amniga iyo xalada wadanku ku jiro iyo dhibaatada inagu dhacaday maadaama oo ay hawshaasi jirto waxa dhacday in Nimankan Tagsiilayaasha ahi ay sameeyeen in ay Dadka ka soo Tahriibiyaan Itoobiya, Qaarkood waxay soo garab maraan Kaantaroolada, waxa kale oo dhaca in ay Dadka ku sameeyaan Dhibaato fara badan oo ah dhacdooyinka dhacay in Qofka iyo alaabtiisa la kala qaado oo laba baabuur la kala saaro waxa kale oo dhacay in Hooyo iyo Ilmaheedii yaraa laba Baabuur la kala saaro markaa markii aanu ka waynay cid maamusha iyo Fursad in ay samaystaan ayaanu hawshaa u galnay ilaa aanu hawshaa u samaynaynana waanu wadaynaa”Dhinaca kale mar aanu Gudoomiyaha waydiinay Tirada Baabuurta halkaa ku Xaniban inta ay yahiin waxa uu ku jawaabay“Gawaadhidaasi ilaa Boqol Baabuur bay ku dhawyihiin waana Tagaasidii Hargeysa u soo baxaysay uun markaa istaanka uu khalkhalku ka jiraa waa ka Hargeysa, lama qabo ka Boorame, Alaybaday, Sheed Dheer waxaas oo dhami lama qabaan Boqolkaa Tagsi xitaa waxa ay qaadayaan ma oga”Mar aanu waydiinay Gudoomiyaha Mudada ay Gawaadhidu Xanibnaayeen Waxa ay Dadku Isticmaalayeen waxa uu ku jawaabay“Laba arrin ba waa la helay Basas soo qaadana waanu helnay waxaana kolay jirta Tahriib in Dadku Koonayaasha ka soo baxaan”Dhinaca kale mar aanu waydiinay Gudoomiyaha intii uu joogay Degmada waxay u qabteen waxa uu ku jawaabay“Arrintaasi waxa weeyi Kolay Bini’aadamku guri ma dhisto ilaa uu Qorshe samaysto anagu waxaanu samaynay mudadii aanu joognay baahida ay Dadwaynahu qabaan ama mid maamul ha ahaato ama mid kale ha ahaatee waxa noo muuqata baahidu sida ay tahay taasina imika way noo dhamaatay waxaananu ka bilaabaynaa Xafiiskayagii aanu ku shaqayn lahayn”Mar aanu wax ka waydiinay Dhinaca amniga iyo Mukhaadaraadka wadanka la soo galiyo waxa uu ku jawaabay Gudoomiyahu“Makra aad eegto amniga waxa u xilsaaran Booliska hadana hawshaasi khamriga iyo mukhaadaraadka shayga ugu dhibta badan ee na haysataa waa khamriga oo Dalka aynu jaarka nahay ee intaa yar ee Togu inoo dhaxeeyo ayuu geesna uu xalaal ka yahay Geesna Xaaraan ka yahay markaa mudadii noogu horaysay qab qabasho badani way jirtay imika wax ka soo talawsho ah oo ka dhacaa ma jiro waayo askarta ayaa waxay ka hawl gashaa Xadka inoo dhaxeeya”Ugu dambayn,Waxa uu godoomiyuhu ka dhawaajiyay inay jecel yihiin inay dadka la sameeyaan wada-tashi mar walba, laakiin nidaamka iyo shuruucda ay ku soconaysaa uu iyaga saaran yahay.
Showing posts with label hargeysa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hargeysa. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Saturday, 15 November 2008
Six month review of Somalia Aids Orphan Project
After six months of operations, our field report shows the new SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa is already making a significant impact on the local community.
Officially about 1.8% of the population of Hargeisa, capital of Somalia, is HIV positive. However Chris Jalle, family strengthening programme coordinator of SOS Children Somalia remarks that due to the stigma attached to the condition there, many more cases go unreported.
HIV/AIDS is seen as a curse on those who are infected. This results in, at best, very little public information about the condition, and at worst, a complete denial that it exists in Somalia.
Mrs A is a typical recipient of help from SOS Children. A widowed mother of four children, is HIV positive and was ostracised by her family when they found out. Her first husband died and she married again, but when her second husband discovered her condition he abandoned her and her children. So Mrs A moved away from the security of her family and community and lives with her four children in a house made from bits of cardboard, old sacks, pieces of corrugated iron, fragments of PVC groundsheet and branches from trees. Considering the material, it is surprisingly well built and the only light inside comes through the slit of the door.
Mrs A has lived in this dwelling for two and a half years with the support of an organisation called Talowadag, which is a coalition of community-based projects dealing with HIV/AIDS. The SOS Family Strengthening Programme (FSP) in Hargeisa has partnered with Talowadag, and with their help Mrs A and her family were identified as an urgent case in need of medical and social support. While anti-retroviral drugs are supplied free to Mrs A by a Hargeisa hospital, she is now able to receive free medical care at the SOS Medical Centre. Her children also receive free medical care.
The SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa opened in June 2008 and is the most modern clinic in the town. With nine full time staff, two part time doctors and several well qualified volunteers, it is currently looking after 65 families with 387 children registered in the family strengthening programme, along with the rest of the local community. For those not on the programme it is primarily a mother and child clinic, giving ante and post natal care, together with an 'under fives' programme which monitors growth and, in partnership with UNICEF, offers free immunization.
In January 2009 the baby delivery room will also be operational. At the moment 90% of deliveries are carried out at home, so it is anticipated that only the complicated cases will come to the medical centre. However, a traditional birth attendant will be attached to the centre and it is planned to train more of them to assist in home deliveries. As in the SOS Mother and Child Clinic in Mogadishu, all deliveries will be free while other standard services will cost the equivalent of a 50 US cents registration fee.
High demand for health care in Hargeisa
Chris Jalle relates that on the day of opening about 150 patients came from all over Hargeisa for treatment and the staff found it difficult to cope. "Now we have had to restrict he patients to neighbouring areas and FSP beneficiaries", he says, "and we have stabilized at 40 to 50 patients a day".
The social and medical centre also includes a voluntary counselling and testing centre, meant to provide counselling for all needs, but particularly HIV/AIDS, a laboratory, an observation room, a pharmacy and the above mentioned immunization programme. "Somaliland has lowest coverage of immunization in the world" , states Chris Jalle, "so we really want to focus on this."
With this sort of support at least Mrs A and her family's medical needs will be met and as a beneficiary of the FSP, she will also be trained in income generating skills and supported with start-up funds, which should eventually help her improve her living conditions.
By acknowledging and confronting her illness, despite losing the support and love of her family, Mrs A has been recognised as a needy beneficiary of the SOS FSP and is managing to keep her little family together. Cultural attitudes may prevent other women from asking for help and changing attitudes will take time, but Chris Jalle is confident that by June 2009, 1, 000 children will be supported by the SOS FSP at the SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa, while many more from the community will be treated on a daily basis.
Officially about 1.8% of the population of Hargeisa, capital of Somalia, is HIV positive. However Chris Jalle, family strengthening programme coordinator of SOS Children Somalia remarks that due to the stigma attached to the condition there, many more cases go unreported.
HIV/AIDS is seen as a curse on those who are infected. This results in, at best, very little public information about the condition, and at worst, a complete denial that it exists in Somalia.
Mrs A is a typical recipient of help from SOS Children. A widowed mother of four children, is HIV positive and was ostracised by her family when they found out. Her first husband died and she married again, but when her second husband discovered her condition he abandoned her and her children. So Mrs A moved away from the security of her family and community and lives with her four children in a house made from bits of cardboard, old sacks, pieces of corrugated iron, fragments of PVC groundsheet and branches from trees. Considering the material, it is surprisingly well built and the only light inside comes through the slit of the door.
Mrs A has lived in this dwelling for two and a half years with the support of an organisation called Talowadag, which is a coalition of community-based projects dealing with HIV/AIDS. The SOS Family Strengthening Programme (FSP) in Hargeisa has partnered with Talowadag, and with their help Mrs A and her family were identified as an urgent case in need of medical and social support. While anti-retroviral drugs are supplied free to Mrs A by a Hargeisa hospital, she is now able to receive free medical care at the SOS Medical Centre. Her children also receive free medical care.
The SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa opened in June 2008 and is the most modern clinic in the town. With nine full time staff, two part time doctors and several well qualified volunteers, it is currently looking after 65 families with 387 children registered in the family strengthening programme, along with the rest of the local community. For those not on the programme it is primarily a mother and child clinic, giving ante and post natal care, together with an 'under fives' programme which monitors growth and, in partnership with UNICEF, offers free immunization.
In January 2009 the baby delivery room will also be operational. At the moment 90% of deliveries are carried out at home, so it is anticipated that only the complicated cases will come to the medical centre. However, a traditional birth attendant will be attached to the centre and it is planned to train more of them to assist in home deliveries. As in the SOS Mother and Child Clinic in Mogadishu, all deliveries will be free while other standard services will cost the equivalent of a 50 US cents registration fee.
High demand for health care in Hargeisa
Chris Jalle relates that on the day of opening about 150 patients came from all over Hargeisa for treatment and the staff found it difficult to cope. "Now we have had to restrict he patients to neighbouring areas and FSP beneficiaries", he says, "and we have stabilized at 40 to 50 patients a day".
The social and medical centre also includes a voluntary counselling and testing centre, meant to provide counselling for all needs, but particularly HIV/AIDS, a laboratory, an observation room, a pharmacy and the above mentioned immunization programme. "Somaliland has lowest coverage of immunization in the world" , states Chris Jalle, "so we really want to focus on this."
With this sort of support at least Mrs A and her family's medical needs will be met and as a beneficiary of the FSP, she will also be trained in income generating skills and supported with start-up funds, which should eventually help her improve her living conditions.
By acknowledging and confronting her illness, despite losing the support and love of her family, Mrs A has been recognised as a needy beneficiary of the SOS FSP and is managing to keep her little family together. Cultural attitudes may prevent other women from asking for help and changing attitudes will take time, but Chris Jalle is confident that by June 2009, 1, 000 children will be supported by the SOS FSP at the SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa, while many more from the community will be treated on a daily basis.
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Caring for the community at the SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa in Somaliland
The new SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa, which opened in June 2008, is already making a big impact (November 2008).
According to statistics, about 1.8% of the population of Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, is HIV positive. So says Chris Jalle, family strengthening programme coordinator of SOS Children's Villages Somaliland, who also adds that, due to the stigma attached to the condition in Somaliland, many more cases go unreported. In fact the stigma is such that HIV/AIDS is seen as a curse on those who are infected. This in turn results in, at best, very little public information about the condition, and at worst, a complete denial that it exists in Somaliland.
HIV positive people are often ostracised
Aisha*, a widowed mother of four children, is HIV positive and was ostracised by her family when they found out. Her first husband died and she married again, but when her second husband discovered her condition he abandoned her and her children. So Aisha moved away from the security of her family and community and lives with her four children in a house made from bits of cardboard, old sacks, pieces of corrugated iron, fragments of PVC groundsheet and branches from trees. Considering the material, it is surprisingly well built and the only light inside comes through the slit of the door.
Aisha has lived in this dwelling for two and a half years with the support of an organisation called Talowadag, which is a coalition of community-based projects dealing with HIV/AIDS. The SOS Family Strengthening Programme (FSP) in Hargeisa has partnered with Talowadag, and with their help Aisha and her family were identified as an urgent case in need of medical and social support. While anti-retroviral drugs are supplied free to Aisha by a Hargeisa hospital, she is now able to receive free medical care at the SOS Medical Centre, for opportunistic infections that often afflict HIV positive people. Her children too receive free medical care.
Traditional birth attendants to be trained
The SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa opened in June 2008 and is the most modern clinic in the town. With nine full time staff, two part time doctors and several well qualified volunteers, it is currently looking after 65 families with 387 children registered in the family strengthening programme. For those not on the programme it is primarily a mother and child clinic, giving ante and post natal care, together with an 'under fives' programme which monitors growth and, in partnership with UNICEF, offers free immunization.
In January 2009 the baby delivery room will also be operational. At the moment 90% of deliveries are carried out at home, so it is anticipated that only the complicated cases will come to the medical centre. However, a traditional birth attendant will be attached to the centre and it is planned to train more of them to assist in home deliveries. As in the SOS Mother and Child Clinic in Mogadishu, all deliveries will be free while other standard services will cost the equivalent of a 50 US cents registration fee.
Medical centre very popular in Hargeisa
Chris Jalle relates that on the day of opening about 150 patients came from all over Hargeisa for treatment and the staff found it difficult to cope. "Now the patients are restricted to neighbouring areas and FSP beneficiaries', he says, and we have stabilized at 40 to 50 patients a day".
The social and medical centre also includes a voluntary counselling and testing centre, meant to provide counselling for all needs, but particularly HIV/AIDS, a laboratory, an observation room, a pharmacy and the above mentioned immunization programme. "Somaliland has lowest coverage of immunization in the world", states Chris Jalle, "so we really want to focus on this."
With this sort of support at least Aisha and her family's medical needs will be met and as a beneficiary of the FSP, she will also be trained in income generating skills and supported with start-up funds, which should eventually help her improve her living conditions.
By acknowledging and confronting her illness, despite losing the support and love of her family, Aisha has been recognised as a needy beneficiary of the SOS FSP and is managing to keep her little family together. Cultural attitudes may prevent other women from asking for help and changing attitudes will take time, but Chris Jalle is confident that by June 2009, 1, 000 children will be supported by the SOS Family Strengthening Programme at the SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa, while many more from the community will be treated on a daily basis.
*Name has been changed for privacy reasons.
According to statistics, about 1.8% of the population of Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, is HIV positive. So says Chris Jalle, family strengthening programme coordinator of SOS Children's Villages Somaliland, who also adds that, due to the stigma attached to the condition in Somaliland, many more cases go unreported. In fact the stigma is such that HIV/AIDS is seen as a curse on those who are infected. This in turn results in, at best, very little public information about the condition, and at worst, a complete denial that it exists in Somaliland.
HIV positive people are often ostracised
Aisha*, a widowed mother of four children, is HIV positive and was ostracised by her family when they found out. Her first husband died and she married again, but when her second husband discovered her condition he abandoned her and her children. So Aisha moved away from the security of her family and community and lives with her four children in a house made from bits of cardboard, old sacks, pieces of corrugated iron, fragments of PVC groundsheet and branches from trees. Considering the material, it is surprisingly well built and the only light inside comes through the slit of the door.
Aisha has lived in this dwelling for two and a half years with the support of an organisation called Talowadag, which is a coalition of community-based projects dealing with HIV/AIDS. The SOS Family Strengthening Programme (FSP) in Hargeisa has partnered with Talowadag, and with their help Aisha and her family were identified as an urgent case in need of medical and social support. While anti-retroviral drugs are supplied free to Aisha by a Hargeisa hospital, she is now able to receive free medical care at the SOS Medical Centre, for opportunistic infections that often afflict HIV positive people. Her children too receive free medical care.
Traditional birth attendants to be trained
The SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa opened in June 2008 and is the most modern clinic in the town. With nine full time staff, two part time doctors and several well qualified volunteers, it is currently looking after 65 families with 387 children registered in the family strengthening programme. For those not on the programme it is primarily a mother and child clinic, giving ante and post natal care, together with an 'under fives' programme which monitors growth and, in partnership with UNICEF, offers free immunization.
In January 2009 the baby delivery room will also be operational. At the moment 90% of deliveries are carried out at home, so it is anticipated that only the complicated cases will come to the medical centre. However, a traditional birth attendant will be attached to the centre and it is planned to train more of them to assist in home deliveries. As in the SOS Mother and Child Clinic in Mogadishu, all deliveries will be free while other standard services will cost the equivalent of a 50 US cents registration fee.
Medical centre very popular in Hargeisa
Chris Jalle relates that on the day of opening about 150 patients came from all over Hargeisa for treatment and the staff found it difficult to cope. "Now the patients are restricted to neighbouring areas and FSP beneficiaries', he says, and we have stabilized at 40 to 50 patients a day".
The social and medical centre also includes a voluntary counselling and testing centre, meant to provide counselling for all needs, but particularly HIV/AIDS, a laboratory, an observation room, a pharmacy and the above mentioned immunization programme. "Somaliland has lowest coverage of immunization in the world", states Chris Jalle, "so we really want to focus on this."
With this sort of support at least Aisha and her family's medical needs will be met and as a beneficiary of the FSP, she will also be trained in income generating skills and supported with start-up funds, which should eventually help her improve her living conditions.
By acknowledging and confronting her illness, despite losing the support and love of her family, Aisha has been recognised as a needy beneficiary of the SOS FSP and is managing to keep her little family together. Cultural attitudes may prevent other women from asking for help and changing attitudes will take time, but Chris Jalle is confident that by June 2009, 1, 000 children will be supported by the SOS Family Strengthening Programme at the SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeisa, while many more from the community will be treated on a daily basis.
*Name has been changed for privacy reasons.
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