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Somalia. Yemenite women starting a new life with henna

Refugee, displaced, returning migrants and vulnerable women from host communities in Mogadishu who participated in the six-month training promoted by COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale and UNHCR from January until December 2023 can finally start working in beauty salons. Among the 25...

Somalia. With the European Union, we help 87 drought-affected families

Sumaya and her husband Bare, parents of seven children, live in the Budkey refugee camp, located in the Bay region of Somalia. They have always based their livelihood exclusively on agro-pastoralism, depending on livestock and products from their land irrigated mainly by rain. Inevitably, this has...

Somalia. Village Saving and Loan Association empowers women in Shriko village

Sowdo Mohamed’s family, residing in Shriko village, Belet Hawa district – Somalia – has gone through a positive transformation thanks to the project “Enhancing resilience in Somalia”, financed by the Australia Department for Foreign Assistance and Trade and implemented...

Somalia. Transforming lives through peacebuilding: Habiba's journey

Habiba Abshir Abdi is 39-year-old mother of eleven and a resident of Isha Bulla Usley village, in the Baidoa aera in Somalia. She has witnessed years of conflict, creating divisions among the villagers causing mistrust and hostility.   We lived in fear, and the constant fighting made it...

Somalia. Transforming lives through cash assistance: Barwaaqo's success story

Baidoa, located in the southwestern region of Somalia, is one of the many areas affected by climate shocks, which have caused the displacement of many people and made agro-pastoral villages even more vulnerable. Barwaaqo Adam Ibrahim, a 44-year-old resident of Haween village and mother of nine...

Somalia. Three meals every day for Adhan Sugow's six children

In Somalia, a country suffering from repeated climate crises and emergencies, the SCC (Somali Cash Consortium) is a lifeline fund for many people. Thanks to European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations the Project “Integrated Implementation of Multipurpose Cash Assistance to...

Somalia. This is how Quresha became an independent woman

Quresha Adan Dahir, aged 37 and mother of 7 children (5 males and 2 females), resides in Oda village, Belet Hawa District, Somalia. She is one of the beneficiaries of the project “Enhancing resilience in Somalia” financed by the Australia Department for Foreign Assistance and Trade and...

Somalia. The transformation of a village with access to clean and sustainable water

Mohamed Yussuf Mohamed, a father of 15 children residing in Qahira village, Baidoa, Somalia, was struggling with access to clean and reliable water after the only borehole available in the village had broken down; his community had to walk long distances for water, often using earth dam open and...

Somalia. The NGOs consortium SomReP addresses the impact of above-normal rainfall

Somalia has been hit by anticipated above-normal rainfall which is impacting thousands of Somali livelihoods in Banadir, Galmaduug, Hirshabelle, Jubaland and South West states, and is likely to affect the operational areas of the Somali Resilience Program (SomReP), a consortium of 8 NGOs with deep...