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The event in Cardiff on December 15 will include an appeal to help mental health services in Somaliland, the self-declared independent state.
Wales’s Somali community has issued a thank you to Wales for welcoming them when they fled civil war in the 1980s and 1990s as it launches a fresh appeal for help re-building their country.
More than 75 delegates, including Cardiff South MP Stephen Doughty and South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael, will attend an event in Cardiff’s City Hall on Thursday to raise awareness about the African country and to say thank you to the people of Cardiff and Wales for their historic support.
Eid Ali Ahmed (holding banner on the right) and other members of Cardiff’s Somaliland Mental Health Support Organisation and Hub Cymru Africa, on a visit to Somalimand earlier this year
Appeal to help Somaliland
People in Cardiff have raised £90,000 of a total £100,000 across the UK for an appeal launched by Welsh Somalis in the city to help people in Somaliland with mental health problems – a health crisis that has escalated as a result of war and poverty, fund raisers say.