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somalia23_web1Nuurto Sharif Mumin at his shelter in Dugul Camp in Mogadishu.Nasra Ali Olow, 35, traveled through snake infested water fearful for her three children. She states: ‘When my farm got destroyed I felt anger, my children got sick, also the water was full of snakes I was fearful of snake bites. A relative of mine got bit by a snake but she’s okay now.’Portrait Deeso Hasan Yousuf, 5 years old, at an IDP camp in Mogadishu.Fadamo Huseis Abalcar, 50, lives in an IDP camp. A flash flood destroyed her farm and house over four months ago. On a six hour journey she moved with her family by boat and foot in snake infested water. Fadamo says: ‘Hunger is high, it affects everyone across Somalia.’Aamina Cali Cabdi after just arriving in a camp in Mogadishu since being displaced by the recent floods.Khadiijo Adam Brahim, 23, is expecting her fourth child. She says: ’I have a lot of dreams, I have a lot of hopes, any person who lives has a lot of dreams. I don’t read or write, my dream is to get an education so I can help my family.’Deynabo Baoheat eats rice for her only meal of the day at Dugul Camp in Mogadishu.Fatima Mohammed Ali, 80 years old, shields herself from the sun at a camp in Mogadishu.Faduma Ibrahim Haasi stands by the camp that she now lives in since the floods washed away her home.Dugul Camp in Mogadishu which houses flood affected displaced Somali'sJanaay Nor Abdi sits with her sick child at Dugul Camp in Mogadishu.Maano Shi Maxamed baby after arriving from the floods at the Dugul Camp in Mogadishu.Children study at class at a camp school in Mogadishu.Children at a school for flood affected people scrub to clean the wood where words from the Holy Koran are writtenFaiza Adam Alsadir, 23, finds her new life living at an IDP camp to be hard. She says: ‘Here life is very hard. We may not eat three meals a day, sometimes we only eat one meal a day, or somedays we don’t even eat.’ Faiza adds: 'With climate change our lives are not getting better but harder every time.’ Dugul Camp in Mogadishu.Two children peer out of their makeshift tent while sheltering from the sun in Dogul Camp, MogadishuSadiya Isaas Aadan, walks home after collecting grass for her livestock that she saved from the floods.Asli Abdalle Imaah, 31, traveled 8 hours for shelter partially by donkey. She says: ‘We get used to the war going on in my village now our biggest concerns are the floods and climate change. We don’t have food.’Jancy Farah Jiinte, 37, would love to return home if the flood water recedes. She says: ‘I miss putting food on the table and sending my kids to school.’