New York, June 2 -- By Ahmed Issak Hussein, Communication and Advocacy Coordinator for Action Against Hunger Somalia.

It was four in the afternoon when Abshiro Abdullahi Bare's phone lit up with a mobile money notification. She had been sitting in her shelter wondering, as she did most days, what the family would eat.

She called her husband immediately. The money is here.

For four months, her family of nine had been eating once a day. Some days, there was nothing at all.

That $100 - the first of three monthly transfers from an emergency cash program - was the moment things began to change.

Before displacement, Abshiro and her husband Hassan Abdi had a functioning livelihood in Deeh village, Garasweyne district. They farmed 1.3 acres ...