New York, March 2 -- By AhmedKhalif, Somalia Country Director for Action Against Hunger

At our stabilization center in Mogadishu, I met Maryan, a mother who had walked for days to save her son. By the time she arrived, he was severely malnourished, swollen with oedema, feverish, and too weak to eat. His family had fled a drought that killed their livestock and wiped out their only income. They had survived on little more than tea and milk powder before it ran out entirely.

He lived because treatment was available. That is the difference timely support makes. In Somalia today, survival often depends not on the severity of illness but on whether help reaches a child in time.

As Country Director for Action Against Hunger in Somalia, I see...