The Candlelight project team conducted environmental awareness session for target communities in Duruqsi and Bisiqa villages through a project supported by Halo Trust. The awareness sessions aimed at raising the knowledge towards the importance of environmental protection among participants. During the training, the ecological link between livestock, humans and the environment []

Candlelight Sheikh Office conducted six days of training for 10 Community Animal Health Workers selected from 5 villages ( Ximan, Dawdama, Iskudar, Cagaarey and Hudiso ) in Sahil region. The project is supported by KNH and aimed at contributing to the national target of increasing the average weight of animal []

Candlelight Sahil Regional Office started the distribution of COVID-19 hygiene and sanitation materials with support from KNH through FGM/C Livelihoodproject in Sheikh District. 360 household (an estimated 2160 individuals) from Sheikh town, Ximan, Dawdama, Cagaaray, Isku dar and Hudiso are benefited from this activity. The distributed of hygiene material []

Zamzam Yasin Ali, a 30 year old mother of six children, lives in Yooco village in Sool region. Zamzam is a pastoralist woman and her family derives its income from livestock, she had a problem of getting water for her family daily life uses. It was difficult for women to []

Haweya Ismail Jama, a 60-year-old mother and grandmother of eleven, lives in Gaacid village in Sanaag region. Her family derives its income from a mixture of farming activities and business — planting grains on their hectare of land and keeping livestock with small business.  Business has been part of her []

They say one moment can change how you view the world or people. Well, I believe it is true. My first contact with candlelight was on Monday night, when I was in class studying principles of management. As I was listening carefully as usual immerse myself into what the teacher []

Devco project team monitored 60 farmers trained on fodder production and supported in Boodhley and Beerato villages to assess the production status.The monitoring findings shown that supported fodder farmers in Boodhley and Beerato village have practiced the fodder production training techniques they have learned and the farms in these villages []

Candlelight project team monitored 100 farmers trained on best farming practices and received farming inputs of tillage hours, hand tools and seeds in Boodhley, Beerato and Gogayso to assess the production status of the supported farmers. The monitoring finding shown that supported farmers in Boodhley and Beerato village have practiced []

The construction of 6300 linear meters of soil bands in degraded rangeland at Qorulugud pastoral villages was completed. The constructed  soil bands were crescent shaped soil bands with  standard measurement used was  ( 80 centimeters in height x 1 meters in base) with variable lengths of ( 30 meters to []

Hodan Yusuf is a young Somali poet and one of the active students of Buroa University, department of Community Development. She wrote a poem about the consequences of practicing FGM to the innocent girls. Likewise, in the poem, she is advising and suggesting all parts of the community to abandon []