Hoodo, A light of Hope
By Gwayi Patrick, Communications Officer, World Vision Somali Programme & Lillian Kemunto, Senior Communication Manager, World Vision Somali Programme
Stories
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...
Improving the lives of the vulnerable youth in Somalia through vocational skills training
World Vision in collaboration with World Food Programme rolled out a nine-month vocational training project in Dollow...
Vocational Skills Training: Building the capacity and resilience of the Somali youth in Dollow
In the beginning…The sun was soft. The clouds were like a thin haze draping the sky from...
Feeding drought affected children and their families in Puntland
The sky is blue and endless. It looks like a ceiling above with the sun’s rays bouncing back...
Vitameal improving malnourished children’s health in Puntland
The smell of hunger is odourless. You can feel it when your stomach grumbles. You can see...
We can not forget about the 15 million children in eastern Africa going hungry
Amidst hurricanes and earthquakes, a paralyzing hunger crisis continues to grip millions of families in eastern Africa...
Health Investment in Puntland
Residents of Dangorayo, Eyl and Godobjiran Districts in Puntland are elated after World Vision inaugurated the opening and...
In Puntland, a lack of toilets is costing women their dignity
Bathroom. Washroom. Restroom. We call it by different names, yet it is one thing; toilet use. Most...
Trucking water to Puntland’s drought-affected families
Women and children crowd around a truck, jostling to fill their jerricans with a much-awaited ration of...
Meeting the health needs of children
Photos and captions by Mark Nonkes: Interim Communication Manager, East Africa Hunger CrisisThe humanitarian situation in Somalia continues...
Pulling children from the clutches of malnutrition in Somaliland
At a health clinic in rural Somaliland, Deeqa kisses her three-year-old daughter on the forehead.“She was so...
A mother's despair
As a pastoralists Fadumo had many goats and camels to boast of. But since the drought began...
Matching your Donations for Somalia
The Canadian government just announced this week it will match private donations to the African famine relief effort...
Somalia’s starvation crisis: May he live, may he live… I prayed
I recently visited the town of Baidoa in Somalia that is now ground zero for the aid...
May he live, may he live… I prayed
I recently visited the town of Baidoa in Somalia that is now ground zero for the aid...
Umi's story
Umi shares her story of struggling to provide for her family and how World Vision food assistance has...