From surviving day-to-day to building life with purpose in Somalia

IMO Somalia

IOM Deputy Director-General Ugochi Daniels in Somalia.

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In a sprawl of shacks on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Ardo huddles with a group of women under a corrugated tin roof that offers little protection against the sun or rain.

At just 20, the mother of two has spent most of her life in displacement, uprooted first by conflict, then by drought that decimated her village in the Lower Shebelle region. “I don’t want my children to go through what I have endured,” she tells me. “I want them to have a better future.”