SUPPORTING INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE
Support to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
MAGAN works in three IDP communities in Somaliland, including Idaan IDP Camp, IMAAN IDP Camp, and the drought-affected area of Baliga-Maxamed Daud. Through community-based interventions, MAGAN has supported more than 1,000 households with essential humanitarian and livelihood assistance.
Our services in these communities include:
Establishment and support of maternal health care services
Support for pregnant mothers through access to birthing centers with well-trained midwives
Income-generating activities for poor and vulnerable families, including chicken farming initiatives
Promotion of safe sanitation services
Provision of improved sanitation support to 20 households living with disabilities
Community health awareness and protection advocacy
Support to strengthen resilience in drought-affected families
Through these integrated interventions, MAGAN aims to improve maternal health outcomes, enhance household livelihoods, ensure inclusive sanitation services, and strengthen the overall wellbeing of displaced and drought-affected communities.
Our Work with IDP Comunities
In 2023, Magan developed a steragic Parnership with Mothers First in Ireland
Our work supports over 1000 familes in 3 IDP camps
Our focus area are
Maternal health
Water and Sanitation
Education
Livelihoods
The Listening tent
The Listening Tent
In 2023 Magan formed a steragic partnership Mothers First in Ireland to develop a holistic set of solutions for IDP communities.
The Listening Tent became a place where the communities themselves could identify both their needs and their soloutions.
What they asked for
The community came up with 6 long term durable solutions
Durable Solution Progress
1 Training of traditional midwives
2 Build a Birthing Centre
3 Miro loans
4 Global Action Plan on Wasting
5 Dry Land Agriculture Project
6 Water and Sanitation
What we have achieved so far
In colobration with Mothers First and the Edna Adan University Hospital Traditional midwives from the camp have recived training .
Built a birthing and medical centre
A core ethos of our work in IDP camps is comunity empowerment. Central to this all work carried on in the camp comes from the Camp itself
Water and Sanitation
A core ethos of our work in IDP camps is comunity empowerment. Central to this all work carried on in the camp comes from the Camp itself
Where Ideas becomes reality
Listent to the stories of why these people needed our help in the provision of toilets and the joy having complected this work
Miro Loan project
One of the strongest requests for support was the need to create employment opportunities.