BY: Hamza Mohamed
This one haunts me more than any photo I have ever taken.
I met this grandmother outside the town of Jowhar in the Middle Shabelle province.
Displaced by recent clan clashes in the area, she sought refuge in one of the IDP camps in the town.
Penniless and with no family members around, every morning she walks the short distance to the African soldier’s base outside the town and waits for them to have their meals.
She waits for them to throw her, over the barbed wires and blast barriers, their leftovers. For almost a year that is how she has survived.
When I met her it was blazing 35 degrees and clouds of unbearable dust engulfed where she was sitting every few minutes.
I hope somewhere in her big heart she finds the means to forgive us - Somali men. For us Somali men have turned her world into a living misery.
She should be spending the last few years of her long life resting surrounded by her grandchildren and all the love family brings not begging for leftovers from foreign troops.
Walee hadaanu nahay ragii Soomaaliyeed akhiro waxba noogama horeeyo aduunyo-na gumeysi iyo habaar ayan ku joogna.
I met this grandmother outside the town of Jowhar in the Middle Shabelle province.
Displaced by recent clan clashes in the area, she sought refuge in one of the IDP camps in the town.
Penniless and with no family members around, every morning she walks the short distance to the African soldier’s base outside the town and waits for them to have their meals.
She waits for them to throw her, over the barbed wires and blast barriers, their leftovers. For almost a year that is how she has survived.
When I met her it was blazing 35 degrees and clouds of unbearable dust engulfed where she was sitting every few minutes.
I hope somewhere in her big heart she finds the means to forgive us - Somali men. For us Somali men have turned her world into a living misery.
She should be spending the last few years of her long life resting surrounded by her grandchildren and all the love family brings not begging for leftovers from foreign troops.
Walee hadaanu nahay ragii Soomaaliyeed akhiro waxba noogama horeeyo aduunyo-na gumeysi iyo habaar ayan ku joogna.
WELL DONE MAN!!!!!!!
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