Volunteer Work Somalia

The country of Somalia is pretty much synonymous with conflict and very few aid agencies are prepared to put the lives of their volunteer workers in danger and therefore they only tend to operate in the war torn country for brief spells, dropping off humanitarian aid or evacuating their workers. As such, those who are hoping to undertake some volunteer work in the country will be disappointed unless you want to work with the Red Cross/Red Crescent.

You can get some idea of how bad things are in Somalia when you consider that on all of our other volunteer work in Africa pages we reference the Human Development Index for each country, a global index that ranks each country in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and living standards. Somalia isn't even ranked, although Global Data Lab indicates the HDI of Somalia is the lowest in the world in 2019.