Baby kits giving newborns a healthy start
When a child is born, their first weeks are crucial for their health and growth, and it is easier if they have the right items to help them pull through this period without hurdles.
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Baby kits giving newborns a healthy start
When a child is born, their first weeks are crucial for their health and growth, and it is...
Reading clubs turning new education page for Somali children
Somali children face many challenges in pursuit of education. In response, World Vision introduced reading clubs to...
Giving hope to fistula survivors
World Vision implements a project supporting women with fistula complications, as well as other reproductive health challenges...
World Vision's community feedback mechanism benefits children with disability
Whenever you would meet Sacad, a young boy from Somaliland, he was not happy because he couldn’t be...
Partnering to support caregivers through health innovation
Even before COVID-19 struck, nearly 3.2 million Somalis lacked access to health services. The need for health...
Fostering livelihoods amongst the youth through vocational training
The rising youth unemployment rate is one of the most significant problems facing developing countries like Somalia...
Mango shallow well of hope
Horsed village faces challenges of insufficient safe water for domestic use, coupled with poor hygiene practices. This has...
Clean water gives girls and women hope
The combined effects of recurrent droughts, insecurity due to on-going political instability and the COVID-19 pandemic have...
Giving hope to the physically challenged - Adan’s story
Children with disabilities are invisible and face many barriers to inclusion, including lack of awareness in the...
Innovating with partners in Somalia to curb the spread of COVID-19
by Lillian Omariba, Senior Communications Manager for WV Somalia Great partnerships and innovation are helping to create awareness...
FMNR techniques provide food security for Somali families after calamities
Abdi-Wali Hussein Haaji & Safiya Mohamed Jama Abdi-Wali Hussein, 49, has nine children from two wives. He...
Somali communities survive and thrive through low-cost land restoration techniques
The Beerato Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) site experiment Sahra Eige Story: Sahra Eige, a mother of...
A shallow well saves girls and women in Baidoa the long trek for clean water
In a small Howlwadaag village, located in Baidoa in the South West State of Somalia, access to safe...
World Vision's Coronavirus Response in Somalia
World Vision is rolling out a COVID-19 preparedness and response plan in order to continue its life-saving...
Hoodo, A light of Hope
By Gwayi Patrick, Communications Officer, World Vision Somali Programme & Lillian Kemunto, Senior Communication Manager, World Vision...
A pillar for his community – Dayib The Health Worker
By Abdirahman Muse, World Vision Communications Coordinator, Somalia Dayib Muuse Beegsi, 55, is a community health worker and...
Improving Livelihoods through Cash Assistance
Fatima Mohamed Abdi, a 45-year-old mother of seven children, five girls and two boys, lives in Abdidheere...
Renewed Hope For Fadumo
By: Ahmed Hussein Zubayr, Advocacy, Communication & Social Mobilization Field Coordinator Fadumo, 8 years old, lives in...
What They Forgot to Tell Me About Having Children
Blog: By Nimco Eid Awale, Protection & Education Snr Coordinator Contributions by Simon Nyabwengi, National Director, World Vision...
Internally displaced: Basic needs going unmet for thousands of Somali girls
Fardawsa Ibrahim was displaced from Dabagoryale village in Odwaine district located near the border of Ethiopia when...
Best Food Assistance Manager - 2018
Philip Ndekei, Manager – Food & Cash Assistance–OperationsWHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS CAREER? I’m very passionate about...
Of Sweet Somali Tea and a Mother’s Dream
By Simon Nyabwengi, Country Director, World Vision Somalia It is a picturesque village, this Bantal village in Southern...
Across the Jubba River Lives a Doctor
By Simon Nyabwengi, Country Director, World Vision SomaliaShe wants to be a doctor. She does not know...
It only takes a spark to end violence against children in Africa
“It only takes a spark, to get the fire going…”The words of this old hymn come to...
Baidoa Shelter Project
World Vision in support with the Government of Germany have constructed 200 shelters in Baidoa for returnees from...