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Mogadishu,(InsideSomalia.org) SOS Children's Village facilities in the Somali capital have been closed down since December 2007 after the security situation became dramatically worse in the area surrounding by the intense fighting between allied Somali government and Ethiopian troops against insurgents, said SOS Somalia official in Mogadishu.
The children and their mothers were relocated to in safe parts of the town after a bomb blast claimed the wife and two children of one of the SOS Somalia staff members.
All the education facilities and the large SOS clinic were also forced to close down at the end of 2007.
"Our main concerns are that the children can attend regular lessons again as soon as possible" said one of the SOS staff members in Mogadishu speaking to insideSomalia.org in anonymity.
"Our main concerns are that the children can attend regular lessons again as soon as possible" said one of the SOS staff members in Mogadishu speaking to InsideSomalia.org in anonymity.
People in Mogadishu are also concerned about the closure of one of the main mother and child care clinic with maternal health care and delivery being closed down for the first .time since it was operating and remained open during intense years of the civil war at early 1990s.
"Somali mothers are very disappointed by closure of SOS mother and child heath care and maternity clinic" said Habibo Ali Warsame , a mother who delivered and treated in the in clinic before the on going fighting erupted in Mogadishu last year.
The situation in the area of town where the SOS projects are located has still not calmed down. In the coming weeks, the director of SOS Children's Villages Somalia, the village director and school director will travel to Mogadishu in order to assess the current situation and discuss possible solutions with those in charge in the area.
The initiatives of SOS Children's Villages in Somalia began in 1983 with the signing of a government agreement.
A property provided by the government in the capital of Mogadishu was chosen as the construction site for the first SOS Children's Village and its adjoining kindergarten. In subsequent years a school, a youth facility and a mother and child clinic were established on the same property.
When the civil war broke out in 1990, SOS Children's Villages started a major medical emergency relief and food program.
The SOS Hermann Gmeiner School was converted into an emergency clinic where adults and children injured in the war were cared for, and the mother and child clinic became part of the emergency relief program.
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