It is hard to imagine summoning the courage to walk up to 100
miles toward an unknown refugee camp in another country. That
more than 700,000 refugees from Somalia already made this
journey is remarkable. Of course many who started the journey
did not make it to the end. Others perished at home, either too
weak to leave in the first place or prevented from leaving by
Al-Shabaab. USAID’s FWD Campaign is using infographics to make
the crisis more comprehensible on the macro level. But to
understand the human side of the crisis we turn to our partners
working on the ground in the Horn of Africa as they share their
stories of the people impacted by famine, war, and drought. Here
is part of one such compelling story provided by Helen Keller
International: Little Abdulay Sahal Mohamed from Somalia arrived
with his family five days ago. His entire family – his parents
and six other siblings – walked for 21 days before reaching a
reception point at the Kenya/Somalia border to be transported to
Dadaab by UNHCR. I can