Its a tragedy that a generation of Somalia children are being forced to grow up knowing nothing but famine, war and conflict. The life expectancy in Somalia is just 48 years of age, and as such, 44% of the country's population are children under the age of fifteen.

Of those over fourteen just 37.8% are literate and 71% of all children suffer from malnourishment. Shockingly, an estimated 200,000 Somalia children are believed to have taken up arms during the conflict there.

Somalia is effectively a failed state in conflict. As such, most of the work in Somalia is to get humanitarian aid in quickly then withdraw and leave longer term planning until there is some semblance of order in the country. As a result, millions are suffering both physical and emotional trauma as well as shortages of life essentials. You can help when you sponsor a child in Somalia: