Round+2

Round 2 of the Problem Solving Process

Eric Doo-Ryul David Nixon

1. About how many people in Somalia are suffering from famine? About 700 out of 50000 of Somali die by famine. Also around 50% of the Somali are starving. They are having malnutrition. []

2. How much does it cost to stop natural disasters in Somalia? It costs about $2.4 billion to stop the disasters in Somalia and the UN has got about $1.3 billion. []

3. How many people do the UNHCR care for? The UNHCR cares about 34.4million people and about 10.5million people are refugees. []

4. How does UN gain their money by helping Somalia? They gain money from the donations of many aiding groups that helps Somali refugees, and UN peacekeepers, made out from UN, is also a part of it. There are still many other groups that donate supplies to the Somali refugees. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43841708/ns/nightly_news/t/famine-horn-africa-how-help/#.Tys_o5igfDM

5. How many Somali refugees are moving from Somalia to Kenya? There is a huge amount of people moving. Even in 2011, between January and March, 50000 new refugees have been registered for immigration to Kenya. Compared to that there had been 23000 other refugees doing the same thing in 2010, during the same quarter of the year. http://www.unhcr.org/4dba949d9.html

6. HOW should the aiding groups be helping Somali people? First, they should be able to pass through Al Shabab, which is one of the main problems. And this is one of the hardest tasks of the whole plan. And then, even if we go through them, we still have problems of giving supplies to the Somali people. When we give the supplies to them, first, we should give them food supplies and money to survive. Then, we should think about their future supplies and help them to find a job to work on, which will help them keep on having supplies. This is because even the aiding groups can’t give infinite supplies and they should be able to make supplies for themselves, after having first supplies for surviving. But here is another problem, which is finding a job. So, the aiding groups should be also helping them with finding a job. Gathering information from many sources: Class Article, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14356198, etc...

7. Estimating when would the around what time will refugee camp finally reach it’s limits? In just a few years time Somalia’s refugee camp has a chance to reach a population up to half a million which is 500 thousand people. That is the time where they can’t hold anymore.

8. How can we give enough food and water so they don’t starve, dehydrate or get so weak they easily get disease that will spread? We could give them energy bars of something that has more calories and make them full. Then get them to grow some corn or plants so they can start to make their own food and survive. Then we can supply them a simple drinking fountain or something so they don’t get dehydrated. Give each family a water bottle so they can fill it in the drinking fountain once more.

9. What are the main problems in the camp and what are people dying from? The main problem of the refugee camp is famine, and al shabab. When foods and goods are being transferred al shabab gets in the way and take away their resources that are meant to be given to the camp and this causes famine not only that but they have a limited amount of food to give to the people in the camp. Then people in the camp all having malnutrition which is not having the regular amount of nutrition in the body.

10. What does unhygienic water and bad sewage disposal lead to?

Unhygienic water and bad unclean sewage deposal has claimed many lives of young children and women. Unsanitary water leads to cholera, which is an endemic that claims hundreds of lives annually, and diarrhea. Access to clean water is essential for prevention of diarrhea diseases and cholera. Filthy sewage deposal can lead to many diseases in food and water.

11. How big is the piracy problem?  The IMB estimates that 53 ships were hijacked worldwide in 2010 - 49 of them off Somalia's coast - and says a record 1,181 hostages were taken.  The problem also appears to be growing. Overall, there were 445 pirate attacks in 2010, a 10% rise from 2009, the IMB says.

 12. Why do the pirates do what they do?

 For the money. The pirates treat the ship, its cargo and its crew as hostages and hold them for ransom.  The rewards they receive are rich in a country where there are no jobs and almost half the population needs food aid after two decades of non-stop conflict.  The Kenyan foreign minister estimates pirates received $150m in ransom payments in 2009.  They use some of this money to fund future operations - more powerful weapons, bigger, faster boats and more sophisticated equipment.  Some of the pirates are former fishermen, who say they have been put out of business by trawlers from around the world taking advantage of the lack of government in Somalia to scoop up all the fish in its territorial waters.